The Soap Company Uses Job Costing and Applies Overhead Using

question 7

Multiple Choice

$\begin{array}{lccc}&\text { Direct }&\text {Direct}&\text { Direct }\\&\text { Materials }&\text {Labour Cost }&\text {Labour Hours }\\\text { Job 200 } & \$ 500 & \$ 800 & 40 \\\text { Job 201 } & 350 & 200 & 10 \\\text { Job 202 } & 1,000 & 600 & 30\end{array}$ The Soap Company uses job costing and applies overhead using a normal costing system using direct labour hours as the allocation base. This period's estimated overhead cost is $400,000, estimated direct labour cost is $500,000 and estimated direct labour hours are 25,000. This period's actual overhead cost was $420,000, actual direct labour cost was $390,000, and actual direct labour hours were 20,000.
What is the overhead allocation rate?

• A) $21/hour
• B) $10/hour
• C) $16/hour
• D) $18/hour

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