Reference no: EM132634295

Sweeten Company had nojobs in progress at the beginning of March and no beginning inventories. The company has two manufacturing departments-Molding and Fabrication. It started, completed, and sold only two jobs during March- Job P and Job Q. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Jobs P and Q (all data and questions relate to the month of March):

                                                                                                  Molding                   Fabrication                             Total

Estimated total machine-hours used                                   2,500                     1,500                              4,000

Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead                     $14,500                   $17,700                        $32,200

Estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour   $ 3.20                       $ 4.00

                                 Job P                         Job Q

Direct materials              $31,000           $17,000

Direct labor cost           $35,400              $14,700

Actual machine-hours used:

Molding 3,500 2,600

Fabrication 2,400 2,700

Total 5,900 5,300

Sweeten Company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month.

Required:

Assume that Sweeten Company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine-hours as the allocation base in both departments and Job P included 20 units and Job 0 included 30 units.

Assume that the company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with machine-hours as the allocation base.

Question 1: What was the total manufacturing cost assigned to Job 0?