Amount of over- or underapplied overhead


Thiel Boots

Sales    $1,000,000
Cost of goods sold
direct materials    300,000
direct labor    160,000
est.overhead    240,000 700,000
Gross profit    300,000
Selling and adm expenses    175,000
Net income    $125,000

Expected to sell 10,000 pairs of boot
est. of production employees will work 10,000
production equipment to operate 8,000

Q1. Compute the predetermined overhead rate for Thiel using the following three cost drivers: direct labors hours,direct labor dollars, and machine hours.

Q2. If actual labor costs were $170,000 for 10,500 direct labor hours and actual machine hours used were 7,800, what would be the applied overhead, using the three predetermined overhead rates computed in part A?

Q3. Compute the amount of over- or underapplied overhead, assuming that actual over-head is $229,000. You should assume that overhead was applied as computed from B.

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