Reference no: EM132769402
Question - A company has a plantwide overhead of $400,000. For the year the actual overhead was $385,000. Budgeted and actual data from the company for the past year are as follows.
Department A Department B
Budgeted department overhead (excludes plantwide overhead) $153,000 $439,900
Actual department overhead 170,000 459,900
Expected total activity:
Direct labor hours 50,000 25,000
Machine hours 15,000 53,000
Actual activity:
Direct labor hours 50,000 23,900
Machine hours 15,800 55,000
Direct materials $21,600
Direct labor cost:
Department A (3,000hrs) 45,000
Department B (1,100hrs) 10,000
Machine hours projected:
Department A 230
Department B 1,200
Units produced 15,000
Required - Compute the under- or overapplied overhead for the year?