The Sendai Co., Ltd., of Japan has budgeted costs in its...

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The Sendai Co., Ltd., of Japan has budgeted costs in its various departments as follows for the coming year:

Factory Administration $ 985,325
Custodial Services 142,911
Personnel 61,544
Maintenance 65,540
Machiningoverhead 919,272
Assemblyoverhead 867,258
Total cost $ 3,041,850

The company allocates service department costs to other departments in the order listed below.
Department Number of Employees Total Labor- Hours Square Feet of Space Occupied Direct Labor- Hours Machine- Hours
Factory Administration 26 14,500
Custodial Services 11 8,100 8,600
Personnel 17 17,600 4,800
Maintenance 56 52,600 19,400
Machining 96 120,000 75,000 40,000 161,250
Assembly 144 160,000 25,000 232,000 53,750
350 358,300 147,300 272,000 215,000

Machining and Assembly are operating departments; the other departments are service departments. Factory Administration is allocated on the basis of labor-hours; Custodial Services on the basis of square feet occupied; Personnel on the basis of number of employees; and Maintenance on the basis of machine-hours.

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1.

Allocate service department costs to consuming departments by the step-down method. Then compute predetermined overhead rates in the operating departments using a machine-hours basis in Machining and a direct labor-hours basis in Assembly. (Please enter allocations from a department as negative and allocations to a department as positive. The line should add across to zero. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round "Predetermined overhead rates" to 2 decimal places and other answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

Factory administration Custodial services Personnel Maintenance Machining Assembly
Operating department costs 919272 867258
Cost to be allocated 985325 142911 61544 65540
Allocation
Factory administration
Custodial services
Personnel
Maintenance
Total overhead after allocations
predetermined overhead rate
2.

Allocate service department costs to consuming departments by the direct method. Again, compute predetermined overhead rates in Machining and Assembly. (Please enter allocations from a department as negative and allocations to a department as positive. The line should add across to zero. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round "Predetermined overhead rates" to 2 decimal places and other answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

Factory administration Custodial services Personnel Maintenance Machining Assembly
Operating department costs 919272 867258
Cost to be allocated 985325 142911 61544 65540
Allocation
Factory administration
Custodial services
Personnel
Maintenance
Total overhead after allocations
predetermined overhead rate
3.

Assume that the company doesnt bother with allocating service department costs but simply computes a single plantwide overhead rate based on total overhead costs (both service department and operating department costs) divided by total direct labor-hours. Compute the plantwide overhead rate. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Plantwide Overhead Rtae per DHL
4. Suppose a job requires machine and labor time as follows:
Machine-Hours Direct Labor-Hours
Machining Department 285 30
Assembly Department 10 84

Total hours 295 114

Compute the amount of overhead cost that would be assigned to the job if the overhead rates were developed using the stepdown method, the direct method, and the plantwide method. (Round intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and final calculations to the nearest whole dollar.)

Overhead cost
Step-down method
Direct method
Plantwide method

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