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Fancy Decorating uses a job order costing system to collect the costs of its int

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Question

Fancy Decorating uses a job order costing system to collect the costs of its interior decorating business. Each client's consultation is treated as a separate job. Overhead is applied to each job based on the number of decorator hours incurred. Listed below are data for the current year.

                              Budgeted overhead                                     $940,000

                              Actual overhead                                           $970,000

                              Budgeted decorator hours                               60,000

                              Actual decorator hours                                     59,000

What is the predetermined overhead rate you will use in applying overhead into work in process?

$ 15.67 per decorator hour.

$31.75 per decorator hour.

$ 22.80 per decorator hour.

$33.49 per decorator hour.

a.

$ 15.67 per decorator hour.

b.

$31.75 per decorator hour.

c.

$ 22.80 per decorator hour.

d.

$33.49 per decorator hour.

Explanation / Answer

the predetermined overhead rate= Budgeted overhead/Budgeted decorator hours =$940,000/ 60,000=$ 15.67 per decorator hour.

so a.$ 15.67 per decorator hour.