Compute the under- or over allocated manufacturing overhead


The Fitzgerald Company uses a job-costing system at its Dover, Delaware, plant. The plant has a machining department and a finishing department. Fitzgeralduses normal costing with two direct-cost categories (direct materials and direct manufacturing labor) and two manufacturing overhead cost pools (the machining department with machine-hours as the allocation base, and the finishing department with direct manufacturing labor costs as the allocation base). The 2014 budget for the plant is as follows:

Machining Department Finishing Department
Manufacturing overhead costs $9,180,000 $8,217,000
Direct manufacturing labor costs $930,000 $4,150,000
Direct manufacturing labor-hours 36,000 155,000
Machine-hours 180,000 31,000

 

Requirement 5. Amounts at the end of 2014 are as follows:

Machining Department Finishing Department
Manufacturing overhead incurred $10,450,000 $8,512,000
Direct manufacturing labor costs $1,020,000 $4,400,000
Machine-hours 200,000 30,000

Compute the under- or overallocated manufacturing overhead for each department and for the Dover plant as a whole. (Use parentheses or a minus sign for overallocated

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