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Marine Components produces parts for airplanes and ships. The parts are produced to specification by their customers, who pay either a fixed price (the price does not depend directly on the cost of the job) or price equal to recorded cost plus a fixed fee (cost plus). For the upcoming year (year 2), Marine expects only two clients (client 1 and client 2). The work done for client 1 will all be done under fixed-price contracts while the work done for client 2 will all be done under cost-plus contracts.

Manufacturing overhead for year 2 is estimated to be $10 million. Other budgeted data for year 2 include:
Client 1 Client 2
Machine-hours (thousands) 2,000 2,000
Direct labor cost ($000) $2,500 $7,500
Required:
a. Compute the predetermined rate assuming that Marine Components uses machine-hours to apply overhead.
b. Compute the predetermined rate assuming that Marine Components uses direct labor cost to apply overhead.

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Step-by-step explanation:

Giving the following information:

Estimated manufacturing overhead= $10 million.

Client 1 Client 2

Machine-hours (thousands) 2,000 2,000

Direct labor cost ($000) $2,500 $7,500

To calculate the predetermined overhead rate, we need to use the following formula:

Predetermined manufacturing overhead rate= total estimated overhead costs for the period/ total amount of allocation base

Machine hours:

Predetermined manufacturing overhead rate= 10,000,000 / 4,000

Predetermined manufacturing overhead rate= $2,500 per machine hour

Direct labor:

Predetermined manufacturing overhead rate= 10,000,000 / 10,000

Predetermined manufacturing overhead rate= $1,000 per direct labor dollar

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