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 $300,000. During the past year, actual plantwide overhead was $284,000. 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)	$	141,100	$	616,000
Actual department overhead		162,000		636,000
Expected activity:
Direct labor hours		32,000		20,000
Machine-hours		17,000		44,000
Actual activity:
Direct labor hours		33,500		19,400
Machine-hours		17,800		46,000

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	$	23,500
Direct labor cost:
Department A (2,600 hr)		39,000
Department B (1,500 hr)		11,600
Machine-hours projected:
Department A		140
Department B		1,200
Units produced		8,000

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