Question

Manufacturers of large equipment such as aircraft and ships and companies involved in road construction have jobs that may require two or more years for completion. For example, Boeing Corporation might have an order for 50 aircraft for a particular airline, and the order will extend over a three- to five-year period. Aircraft are delivered as completed, but not in a batch of 50 at one time. In the typical fashion, the overhead application rate must be calculated and applied in such a way that each aircraft that is delivered has the proper amount of overhead for that aircraft. Required: What unique difficulties do you see in the calculation and application of overhead in industries such as aircraft manufacturing or shipbuilding

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

The unique difficulty that faced by industries in terms of aircraft manufacturing or ship building that includes the measurement of the capciaty cost that would be distributed each year with respect to the job. The overhead would be distributed to the capacity spent. Also the company find to be difficult for tracking the actual capacity i.e. used in the production of a single aircraft or ship. In this case, the predetermined overhead rate would not be worked.