Reference no: EM132680380

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 150,000

Machine-hours required to support estimated production 75,000

Fixed manufacturing overhead cost$420,000

Variable manufacturing overhead cost per direct labor-hour$4.60

Variable manufacturing overhead cost per machine-hour$9.20

During the year, Job 550 was started and completed. The following information is available with respect to this job:

Direct materials $195

Direct labor cost $288

Direct labor-hours 15

Machine-hours 5

Required:

Problem 1. Assume that Landen has historically used a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with direct labor-hours as the allocation base. Under this approach:

a. Compute the plantwide predetermined overhead rate.
b. Compute the total manufacturing cost of Job 550.
c. If Landen uses a markup percentage of 200% of its total manufacturing cost, what selling price would it establish for Job 550?

Problem 2. Assume that Landen's controller believes that machine-hours is a better allocation base than direct labor-hours. Under this approach:

a. Compute the plantwide predetermined overhead rate.
b. Compute the total manufacturing cost of Job 550.
c. If Landen uses a markup percentage of 200% of its total manufacturing cost, what selling price would it establish for Job 550?