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RC's 2017 manufacturing overhead rates by department are as follows: RC's 2017 manufacturing overhead rates by department are as follows: Department Design Engineering Manufacturing Overhead Rate (by Department) por machine hour 50 per machine hour 44 per machine hour Production Calculate the overhead allocated to each customer, by department, using the departmental manufacturing overhead rates Calculated in the previous stop. Calculate the total overhead cost for each depe Southern Caesar Juniper Motors Motors Auto Total Department Design Engineering Production Total Requirement 3. Comment on your answers in requirements 1 and 2. Which customer do you think was complaining about being overcharged in the simple system? If the new department-based rates an customer(s) will be unhappy? How would you respond to these concors? 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He knows that there are three main departments that come overhead source design, production, and engineering. Interviews with the department personnel and examination of time records yield the following detailed information Click the icon to view the information) Read the m oments Requirement 1. Compute the manufacturing overhead allocated to each customer in 2017 using the simple costing system that uses machine hours on the location base Determine the formula nooded to calculate overhead using the simple costing method and the calculate RC's manufacturing overhead rate for 2017. (Pound your answer to the nearest cont) Total manufacturing overhead Total machine hours Manufacturing overhead 280000 5000 por machine hour Calculate the overhead allocated to each customer using the simple costing method (Round your answers to the rest whole dollar) Machine Overhead Customer Hours Used Allocated Southern Motors 300 16800 Caesar Motors 3700 207200 Juniper Auto 1000 56000 Requirement 2. Compute the manufacturing overhead allocated to each customer in 2017 using department-based manufacturing overhead rates (Abbreviations used Dept Determine the formula used to calculate the department-based manufacturing overheads det Total manufacturing overhead Mandring over Total machine hours Department) RC's 2017 manufacturing overhead rates by department are as follows: Manufacturing Overhead Rate Department (by Department) Design 70 per machine hour Engineering 50 per machine hour Production 44 per machine hour Calculate the overhead allocated to each customer, by department, using the departmental manufacturing overhead rates Calculated in the previous step. Calculate the total overhead cost for et department and each customer. Southern Motors Caesar Motors Juniper Auto Total Department Design Engineering Production Total Requirement 3. Comment on your answers in requirements 1 and 2. Which customer do you think was complaining about being overcharged in the simple system? If the new department-based rates are used to price contract, which customer will be unhappy? How would you respond to these concerns? Under the simple-costing system, was likely unhappy about their bill, because the contract appears to have been in the new department-based rates are used to price contrada I will likely be happier about their bill. If the new department-based rates are used to price contracts, Using the department-based rates, their bills will be will likely be unhappy. This is because their bills under the simple-cooling system appear to have been If the new department-based rates are used, RC should explain to the unhappy custom We calculation was done, and point out their high use of relative to Requirement 4. How else might RC use the information available from its department by department analysis of manufacturing overhead costs? (Select all that apply) Other than for pricing, RC can also use the information from the department based system A to provide incentives to professional staff B. to set targets over time to reduce both the consumption of each indirect resource and the unit costs of the resources C. to reevaluate employee pay scales. D. to examine and streamline its own operations so that there is maximum value d from all direct resources Requirement S. RC's managers are wondering if they should further refine the department by onpartment oosting systern into an ABC system by identifying different activities within each department. Under what conditions would not be worthwhile to further refine the department costing systers into an ABC system? O A. if significant costs are incurred on different activities within a department, but each activity has the same cost driver O B. If a single activity accounts for a sizable proportion of the departments costs. o c. If there wasn't much variation among contracts in the consumption of activities within a department OD. All of the above