The Sweetheart Corporation Uses Departmental Overhead Rates to Allocate Its

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Essay

The Sweetheart Corporation uses departmental overhead rates to allocate its manufacturing overhead to jobs. The company has two departments: cutting and painting. The Cutting Department uses a departmental overhead rate of $12 per machine hour, while the Painting Department uses a departmental overhead rate of $17 per direct labor hour. Job 422 used the following direct labor hours and machine hours in the two departments:
The cost for direct labor is $20 per direct labor hour and the cost of the direct materials used by Job 422 is $800.
Required: What was the total cost of Job 422 if the Sweetheart Corporation used the departmental overhead rates to allocate manufacturing overhead?

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