Macnamara Corporation Has Two Manufacturing Departments--Casting and Finishing

question 180

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. The manufacturing overhead applied to Job F is closest to: (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)

• A) $4,620
• B) $12,780
• C) $12,420
• D) $8,160

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