(1) White Company has two departments, Cutting and Finishing. The company uses a job-order costing system and computes a predetermined overhead rate in each department. The Cutting Department bases its rate on machine-hours, and the Finishing Department bases its rate on direct labour cost. At the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates: (25 points) Direct labor-hours. Machine-hours..... Materials overhead cost Direct labor cost.. Department Cutting Finishing 6,000 30,000 48,000 5,000 $360,000 $486,000 $50,000 $270,000 a. Compute the predetermined overhead rate to be used in each department. b. Assume that the overhead rates that you computed in (a) above are in effect. The job cost sheet for Job 203, which was started and completed during the year, showed the information in the table below. Compute the total overhead cost applied to Job 203. Direct labor-hours. Machine-hours...... Materials requisitioned....... Direct labor cost... Department Cutting Finishing 6 20 80 4 $500 $310 $70 $150 c. Would you expect substantially different amounts of overhead cost to be assigned to some jobs if the company used a plantwide overhead rate based on direct labour cost, rather than using departmental rates? Explain. No computations are necessary