The Oakman Company (see Short Exercise S19-1) has refined its allocation system by separating manufacturing overhead costs into two cost pools—one for each department. The estimated costs for the Mixing Department, \(510,000, will be allocated based on direct labor hours, and the estimated direct labor hours for the year are 170,000. The estimated costs for the Packaging Department, \)300,000, will be allocated based on machine hours, and the estimated machine hours for the year are 40,000. In October, the company incurred 38,000 direct labor hours in the Mixing Department and 10,000 machine hours in the Packaging Department.

Requirements

2. Determine the total amount of overhead allocated in October.

Short Answer

Expert verified

Total overhead in October is $189,000.

Step by step solution

01

Overhead cost or mixing department

overhaedcostinoctober=predeterminedoverheadallocationrate×directlaborhourinoctober=$3×38,000=$114,000

02

Overhead cost or packaging department

overhaedcostinoctober=predeterminedoverheadallocationrate×directmachinehourinoctober=$7.5×10,000=$75,000

03

Total Overhead allocated in October

totaloverhaedcostinoctober=overheadallocationformixingdepartment+overheadallocationforpackingdepartment=$114,000+75,000=$189,000

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Question:High Mountain produces fleece jackets. The company uses JIT costing for its JIT production system.

High Mountain has two inventory accounts: Raw and In-Process Inventory and

Finished Goods Inventory. On April 1, 2018, the account balances were Raw and In-Process Inventory, \(10,000; Finished Goods Inventory, \)2,100.

The standard cost of a jacket is \(33, composed of \)12 direct materials plus \(21

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Number of jackets completed 19,000

Number of jackets sold (on account for \)50 each) 18,600

Direct materials purchased (on account) \( 220,500

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Requirements

1. What are the major features of a JIT production system such as that of High Mountain?

2. Prepare summary journal entries for April. Underallocated or overallocated

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Activity Allocation Base Allocation Rate

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Materials handling \( 96,000 Number of kilos 24,000 kilos

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Direct materials cost \( 81.00

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Allocation Base

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Dip Insertion

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Wave solder

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Backload

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Defect analysis

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