Reference no: EM132502662
Landen Corporation uses a job-order costing system. At the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates:
Direct labor-hours required to support estimated production 95,000
Machine-hours required to support estimated production 47,500
Fixed manufacturing overhead cost $266,000
Variable manufacturing overhead cost per direct labor-hour $2.60
Variable manufacturing overhead cost per machine-hour $5.20
During the year, Job 550 was started and completed. The following information is available with respect to this job:
Direct materials $273
Direct labor cost $237
Direct labor-hours 15
Machine-hours 5
Question 1: If assume that Landen has historically used a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with direct labor-hours as the allocation base. Under this approach:
a. Help me Compute the plantwide predetermined overhead rate.
b. Help me Compute the total manufacturing cost of Job 550.
c. If Landen uses a markup percentage of 200% of its total manufacturing cost, help me determine what the selling price would it establish for Job 550?