Sambell Manufacturing Uses a Predetermined Manufacturing Overhead Rate to Allocate

question 63

Essay

Sambell Manufacturing uses a predetermined manufacturing overhead rate to allocate
overhead to individual jobs. At the beginning of the year, the company expected to incur the following:
At the end of the year, the company had actually incurred the following:
Required:
1. Compute Trident's indirect cost allocation rate based on labour cost.
2. Compute Trident's indirect cost allocation rate based on machine hours.
3. How much overhead was allocated during the year if the allocation base was direct labour cost?
4. How much manufacturing overhead was incurred during the year?

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