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Kerin Company produces a range of Biomedical products for industries. It uses a job-costing system to calculate the cost of a particular job. Materials and labors used in the manufacturing process are direct in nature, but manufacturing overhead is allocated to different jobs using direct manufacturing labor costs. Kerin provides the following information:

	Budget for 2019	Actual Results for 2019
Direct material costs	$ 5,500,000	$6,000,000
Direct manufacturing labor costs	3,660,000	4,500,000
Manufacturing overhead costs	6,588,000	7,560,000

Required:

1. Compute the actual and budgeted manufacturing overhead rates for 2019.

2. During March, the job-cost records for Job 666 contained the following information:

Direct materials used $147,000

Direct manufacturing labor costs $102,000

Compute the cost of Job 666 using normal costing.

3. At the end of 2019, compute the under-allocated or over-allocated manufacturing overhead using normal costing.