an Company uses activity-based costing to determine product costs for external financial reports. Some of the entries have been completed to the manufacturing overhead account for the current year, as shown by entry (a) below:

Manufacturing Overhead(a)2,345,000

Required:

1.What does entry (a) represent?

multiple choice

• Actual manufacturing overhead cost incurred
• Machine-hours
• Overhead applied

2.At the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates of cost and activity for its five activity cost pools:

Activity Cost PoolActivity MeasureEstimated

Overhead CostExpected ActivityLabour relatedDirect labour-hours$602,00043,000DLHsPurchase ordersNumber of orders39,5201,520ordersParts managementNumber of part types357,000398part typesBoard etchingNumber of boards447,0002,000boardsGeneral factoryMachine-hours669,81080,700MHs

Compute the activity rate (i.e., predetermined overhead rate) for each of the activity cost pools.(Round your final answers to 1 decimal place.)

3.During the year, actual activity was recorded as follows:

Activity Cost PoolActual ActivityLabour related41,000DLHsPurchase orders1,290ordersParts management415part typesBoard etching2,180boardsGeneral factory83,000MHs

Determine the amount of manufacturing overhead cost applied to production for the year.(Round intermediate calculations to 1 decimal place and final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

4.Determine the amount of underapplied or overapplied overhead cost for the year.(Round intermediate calculations to 1 decimal place and final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)