Business
ohnson Inc. is a job-order manufacturing company that uses a predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor hours to apply overhead to individual jobs. For the current year, estimated direct labor hours are 95,000 and estimated factory overhead is $617,500. The following information is for September of the current year. Job A was completed during September, and Job B was started but not finished. September 1, inventories Materials inventory $ 8,600 Work-in-process inventory (All Job A) 33,400 Finished goods inventory 72,500 Material purchases 120,500 Direct materials requisitioned Job A 76,000 Job B 39,000 Direct labor hours Job A 5,300 Job B 3,100 Labor costs incurred Direct labor ($8.50/hour) 71,400 Indirect labor 14,600 Supervisory salaries 7,100 Rental costs Factory 8,100 Administrative offices 2,900 Total equipment depreciation costs Factory 9,150 Administrative offices 3,250 Indirect materials used 13,100 Required: 1. What is the total cost of Job A
Hoag Corporation applies manufacturing overhead to products on the basis of standard machine-hours. Budgeted and actual fixed manufacturing overhead costs for the most recent month appear below: Original Budget Actual Costs Fixed overhead costs: Supervision $ 9,880 $ 9,970 Utilities 4,160 4,440 Factory depreciation 21,320 21,190 Total fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 35,360 $ 35,600 The company based its original budget on 2,600 machine-hours. The company actually worked 2,280 machine-hours during the month. The standard hours allowed for the actual output of the month totaled 2,080 machine-hours. What was the overall fixed manufacturing overhead volume variance for the month