Budgeted and actual manufacturing overhead figures


Maher, Inc., applies manufacturing overhead at the rate of $60 per machine hour. Budgeted machine hours for the current period were anticipated to be 80,000; however, a lengthy strike resulted in actual machine hours being worked of only 65,000. Budgeted and actual manufacturing overhead figures for the year were $4,800,000 and $4,180,000, respectively. On the basis of this information, the company's year-end overhead was:

a. underapplied by $900,000.

b. underapplied by $620,000.

c. underapplied by $280,000.

d. overapplied by $280,000.

e. overapplied by $620,000.

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Accounting Basics: Budgeted and actual manufacturing overhead figures
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