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Bernard Incorporated uses a job-order costing system and a predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor hours. At the beginning of the year, the company estimated manufacturing overhead for the year would be $1,184,000 and direct labor hours would be 80,000 hours. The following information pertains to September of the current year:

Job X10

Job X11

Job X12

Work in Process, Sept. 1

$14,000

$18,000

$24,000

March production activity:

Materials used

$12,800

$8,200

$9,700

Direct labour used

$3,400

$4,600

$6,500

Machine hours

390

620

790

Labour hours

1,050

1,170

1,180

Required (round answers to 2 decimal points)

  1. Calculate the predetermined overhead rate (POHR).
  2. Complete a brief job-order cost sheets for the 3 jobs for the month of September. (Hint: this requires applying overhead using the rate calculated in part 1 above).
  3. At the end of the September Jobs X10 and Job X11 were completed, and Job X10 was sold and delivered to a customer - show the ending balances of the Work in Process and Finished Goods inventory accounts (assume no beginning Finished Goods inventory).
  4. If actual manufacturing overhead costs are $49,000, what is the amount of ovrehead Variance for September? Is it over or under applied overhead?

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