Question

Minstrel Manufacturing uses a job order costing system. During one month, Minstrel purchased $206,000 of raw materials on credit; issued materials to production of $203,000 of which $22,000 were indirect. Minstrel incurred a factory payroll of $158,000, of which $32,000 was indirect labor. Minstrel uses a predetermined overhead application rate of 150% of direct labor cost. If Minstrel incurred total overhead costs of $203,000 during the month, compute the amount of under- or overapplied overhead

Answer 1

$14,000 under applied

Step-by-step explanation:

Given that

Material production = $203,000

Application rate = 150%

The computation of amount of overhead is shown below:-

Overhead = Material production × Application rate

= $203,000 - ($126,000 × 1.5)

= $203,000 - $189,000

= $14,000 under applied

Therefore, for computing the overhead we simply multiply the material production with application rate percentage.