The gilster company a machine tooling firm has several

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The Gilster Company, a machine tooling firm, has several plants. One plant, located in St. Falls, Minnesota, uses a job order costing system for its batch production processes. The St. Falls plant has two departments through which most jobs pass. Plantwide overhead, which includes the plant manager%u2019s salary, accounting personnel, cafeteria, and human resources, is budgeted at $360,000. During the past year, actual plantwide overhead was $346,000. Each department%u2019s overhead consists primarily of depreciation and other machine-related expenses. Selected budgeted and actual data from the St. Falls plant for the past year are as follows:

Department A Department B
Budgeted department overhead
(excludes plantwide overhead) $ 134,400 $ 550,000
Actual department overhead 162,000 570,000
Expected activity:
Direct labor hours 44,000 25,000
Machine-hours 12,000 50,000
Actual activity:
Direct labor hours 46,500 23,600
Machine-hours 12,800 52,000

For the coming year, the accountants at St. Falls are in the process of helping the sales force create bids for several jobs. Projected data pertaining to job no. 110 are as follows:

Direct materials $ 20,400
Direct labor cost:
Department A (2,800 hr) 42,000
Department B (1,100 hr) 9,600
Machine-hours projected:
Department A 200
Department B 1,200
Units produced 12,000
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