Kansas Company uses a job costing accounting system for its production costs. The company uses a predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours to apply overhead to individual jobs. The company prepared an estimate of overhead costs at different volumes for the current year as follows.

Direct labor-hours		150,000				180,000				210,000
Variable overhead costs	$	900,000			$	1,080,000			$	1,260,000
Fixed overhead costs		630,000				630,000				630,000
Total overhead	$	1,530,000			$	1,710,000			$	1,890,000

The expected volume is 180,000 direct labor-hours for the entire year. The following information is for March, when Jobs 6023 and 6024 were completed.

Inventories, March 1
Materials and supplies	$	32,000
Workinprocess (Job 6023)	$	163,000
Finished goods	$	333,000
Purchases of materials and supplies
Materials	$	406,000
Supplies	$	46,000
Materials and supplies requisitioned for production
Job 6023	$	132,000
Job 6024		122,500
Job 6025		81,000
Supplies		19,000
	$	354,500

Factory direct labor-hours (DLH)
Job 6023	10,000 DLH
Job 6024	9,000 DLH
Job 6025	7,000 DLH

Labor costs
Direct labor wages (all hours @ $9)	$	234,000
Indirect labor wages (12,000 hours)		48,000
Supervisory salaries		111,000
Building occupancy costs (heat, light, depreciation, etc.)
Factory facilities	$	19,000
Sales and administrative offices		8,000
Factory equipment costs
Power	$	14,000
Repairs and maintenance		4,500
Other		8,500
	$	27,000

Required:

a. Compute the predetermined overhead rate (combined fixed and variable) to be used to apply overhead to individual jobs during the year.

(Note: Regardless of your answer to requirement [a], assume that the predetermined overhead rate is $8 per direct labor-hour. Use this amount in answering requirements [b] through [e].)

b. Compute the total cost of Job 6023 when it is finished.

c. How much of factory overhead cost was applied to Job 6025 during March?

d. What total amount of overhead was applied to jobs during March?

e. Compute actual factory overhead incurred during March.

f. At the end of the year, Kansas Company had the following account balances:

Overapplied overhead	$	4,000
Cost of goods sold		3,020,000
Work-in-process inventory		113,000
Finished goods inventory		254,000

Assuming that the overapplied overhead is not material, show the new account balances in the following table.