Merati Corporation Has Two Manufacturing Departments--Forming and Assembly

question 249

Multiple Choice

Merati Corporation has two manufacturing departments--Forming and Assembly. 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 B and Job L. 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 B is closest to: (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)

• A) $9,400
• B) $25,160
• C) $32,670
• D) $34,560

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