Sweeten Company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of March and no beginni

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Sweeten Company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of March and no beginning inventories. The company has two manufacturing departments-Molding and Fabrication. It started, completed, and sold only two jobs during March- Job P and Job Q. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Jobs P and Q (all data and questions relate to the month of March) Estimated total machine-hours used Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead Estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour Molding Fabrication Total 4,000 $10,500 $15,300 $25,800 2,500 1,500 $ 1.602.40 Job P Job Q $15,000 $9,000 $22,600 $8,300 Direct materials Direct labor cost Actual machine-hours used: Molding Fabrication Total 1,900 800 2,700 1,000 1,100 2,100 Sweeten Company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month Required: For questions 1-8, assume that Sweeten Company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with machine-hours as the allocation base. For questions 9-15, assume that the company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine-hours as the allocation base in both departments.

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Solution 1-8:

Solution 9 & 10:

Computation of manufacturing overhead rate (Plant wide predetermined overhead rate) Particulars Amount Estimated fixed manufacturing overhead $25,800 Estimated machine hours 4000 Overhead rate (Fixed manufacturing overhead / Total machine hours) $6.45

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