Sweet Co. uses budgeted overhead rates to apply overhead
Sweet Co. uses budgeted overhead rates to apply overhead to individual jobs. They use a system based on direct
labor hours. Last year, the company made the following estimates for this year.
Direct labor costs $48,000,000
Factory overhead costs $6,400,000
Direct Labor Hours 80,000
Machine Hours 110,000
(a) What is the budgeted overhead rate for the company?
(b) If Job #34567 had the following:
Material costs were $500,000;
Direct labor costs were $450,000;
Direct labor hours were 25,000; and
Machine hours were 36,000,
then what is the total cost of Job #34567?