Hobart, Evans, and Nix is a small law firm that contains 10 partners and 12 support persons. The firm employs a job-order costing system to accumulate costs chargeable to each client, and it is organized into two departments the Research and Document Department and the Litigation Department. The firm uses predetermined overhead rates to charge the costs of these departments to its clients. At the beginning of the year, the firms management made the following estimates for the year:

Research and Documents Litigation

Department Department

Research hours 25,000 ---

Direct attorney hours 9,000 18,000

Legal forms and supplies $16,000 $5,000

Direct attorney cost $450,000 $900,000

Departmental overhead cost $840,000 $360,000

The predetermined overhead rate in the Research and Documents Department is based on research hours, and the rate in the Litigation Department is based on direct attorney cost.

The costs charged to each client are made up of three elements: legal forms and supplies used, direct attorney costs incurred, and an applied amount of overhead from each department in which work is performed on the case.

Case 418-3 was initiated on February 23^rd and completed on May 16^th. During this period, the following costs and time were recorded on the case:

Research and Documents Litigation

Department Department

Research hours 25 ---

Direct attorney hours 7 114

Legal forms and supplies $80 $40

Direct attorney cost $350 $5,700

Compute the predetermined overhead rate used during the year in the Research and Documents Department. Compute the rate used in the Litigation Department.

Using the rates you computed in (1) above, compute the total overhead cost applied to case 418-3.

What would be the total cost charged to case 418-3? Show computations by department and in total for the case.

At the end of the year, the firms records revealed the following actual cost and operating data for all cases handled during the year:

Research and Documents Litigation

Department Department

Research hours 30,000 ---

Direct attorney hours 10,000 15,000

Legal forms and supplies $19,000 $6,000

Direct attorney cost $400,000 $750,000

Departmental overhead cost $880,000 $315,000

Determine the amount of under- or over-applied overhead cost in each department for the year.