Macnamara Corporation Has Two Manufacturing Departments--Casting and Finishing

question 150

Multiple Choice

Macnamara Corporation has two manufacturing departments--Casting and Finishing. The company used the following data at the beginning of the year to calculate predetermined overhead rates: During the most recent month, the company started and completed two jobs--Job F and Job M. There were no beginning inventories. Data concerning those two jobs follow:
Assume that the company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine-hours as the allocation base in both production departments. Further assume that the company uses a markup of 50% on manufacturing cost to establish selling prices. The calculated selling price for Job M is closest to: (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)

• A) $15,310
• B) $47,767
• C) $30,620
• D) $45,930

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