White company Has two departments cutting and fishing. The company uses a job order costing system and computed 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 labor hours.

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 labor-hours. At the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates: Direct labor-hours Machine-hours Total fixed manufacturing overhead cost Variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour Variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour Department Cutting Finishing 6,300 76,000 50,100 1,400 $370,000 $532,000 $ 3.00 $ 3.75 Required: 1. Compute the predetermined overhead rate for each department. 2. The job cost sheet for Job 203, which was started and completed during the year, showed the following: Department Cutting Finishing Direct labor-hours 5 $750 $370 Direct labor cost $437 19 6 82 Machine-hours Direct materials $138 Using the predetermined overhead rates that you computed in requirement (1), compute the total manufacturing cost assigned to Job 203 3. Would you expect substantially different amounts of overhead cost to be assigned to some jobs if the company used a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours, rather than using departmental rates? Complete the question by entering your answers in the tabs given below. Required 1 Required 2 Required 3 predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours, rather than using departmental rates? Complete the question by entering your answers in the tabs given below. Required 1 Required 2 Required 3 Compute the predetermined overhead rate for each department. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Department Cutting Finishing per DLH Predetermined overhead rate per MH Required Required 2 > Complete the question by entering your answers in the tabs given below. Required 1 Required 2 Required 3 Using the predetermined overhead rates that you computed in requirement (1), compute the total manufacturing cost assigned to Job 203. (Round intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and final answer to the nearest dollar amount.) Total manufacturing cost Complete the question by entering your answers in the tabs given below. Required 1 Required 2 Required 3 Would you expect substantially different amounts of overhead cost to be assigned to some jobs if the company used a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours, rather than using departmental rates? Yes No