Required:

1.

Assuming the use of normal costing, determine the predetermined overhead rates used in the Machining Department and the Assembly Department.

2.

Compute the cost of the companys year-end work-in-process inventory.

3.

Determine whether overhead was under- or overapplied during the year in the Machining Department.

4.	Determine whether overhead was under- or overapplied during the year in the Assembly Department.

5.

If Juarez disposes of under- or overapplied overhead as an adjustment to Cost of Goods Sold, would the companys Cost of Goods Sold account increase or decrease?

6.

How much overhead would have been charged to the companys Work-in-Process account during the year?

7.

Comment on the appropriateness of the companys cost drivers (i.e., the use of machine hours in Machining and direct-labor cost in Assembly).

	The companys cost drivers are not appropriate.
	The companys cost drivers are appropriate.

Juarez, Inc. uses a job-order costing system for its products, which pass from the Machining Department, to the Assembly Department, to finished-goods inventory. The Machining Department is heavily automated; in contrast, the Assembly Department performs a number of manual-assembly activities. The company applies manufacturing overhead using machine hours in the Machining Department and direct-labor cost in the Assembly Department. The following information relates to the year just ended Budgeted manufacturing overhead Actual manufacturing overhead Budgeted direct-labor cost (based on practical capacity) Actual direct-labor cost Budgeted machine hours (based on practical capacity) Actual machine hours Machining Assembly Department Department $4,000,000 $3,136,000 4,260,000 3,030,000 1500,000 5,600,000 1,450,000 5,780,000 400,000 00,000 425,000 110,000 The data that follow pertain to job no. DC66, the only job in production at year-end Direct material Direct labor Machine hours Machining Assembly Department Department $24,500 6,700 $27,800 $58,600 150 350 Selling and administrative expense amounted to $2,500,000