The Gilster Company, a machine tooling firm, has several plants. One plant, located in St. Cloud, Minnesota, uses a job order costing system for its batch production processes. The St. Cloud plant has two departments through which most jobs pass. Plant-wide overhead, which includes the plant managers salary, accounting personnel, cafeteria, and human resources, is budgeted at $360,000. During the past year, actual plantwide overhead was $344,000. Each departments overhead consists primarily of depreciation and other machine-related expenses. Selected budgeted and actual data from the St. Cloud plant for the past year are as follows. Department A Department B Budgeted department overhead (excludes plantwide overhead) $ 121,000 $ 514,500 Actual department overhead 140,000 534,500 Expected total activity: Direct labor hours 42,000 25,000 Machine-hours 11,000 49,000 Actual activity: Direct labor hours 43,500 23,500 Machine-hours 11,800 51,000 For the coming year, the accountants at the St. Cloud plant are in the process of helping the sales force create bids for several jobs. Projected data pertaining only to job no. 110 are as follows. Direct materials $ 20,000 Direct labor cost: Department A (2,800 hr) 42,000 Department B (1,500 hr) 8,800 Machine-hours projected: Department A 190 Department B 1,200 Units produced 11,000 Required:

a-1. Assume the St. Cloud plant uses a single plantwide overhead rate to assign all overhead (plantwide and department) costs to jobs. Use expected total direct labor hours to compute the overhead rate.

a-2. What is the expected cost per unit produced for job no. 110?

b-1. Find the plant wide overhead rate by using expected machine hours.

b-2. Find the department overhead rate using expected machine hours for Department A and Department B.

b-3. Calculate the projected manufacturing costs per unit for job 110 using the three separate rates computed in b-1 and b-2.

c-1. The sales policy at the St. Cloud plant dictates that job bids be calculated by adding 23 percent to total manufacturing costs. What would be the bid for job no. 110 using the overhead rate from part a?

c-2. The sales policy at the St. Cloud plant dictates that job bids be calculated by adding 23 percent to total manufacturing costs. What would be the bid for job no. 110 using the overhead rate from part b?

c-3. Which of the overhead allocation methods would you recommend?

d. Compute the under- or overapplied overhead for the St. Cloud plant for the year.

f. Would your response to part e change if the St. Cloud plant could use the facilities necessary to produce parts for job no. 110 for another job that could earn an incremental profit of $29,000?