Bassett Corporation has two production departments, Milling and Customizing. The company uses a job-order costing system and computes a predetermined overhead rate in each production department. The Milling Department’s predetermined overhead rate is based on machine-hours and the Customizing Department’s predetermined overhead rate is based on direct labor-hours. At the beginning of the current year, the company had made the following estimates: Milling Customizing Machine-hours 16,000 12,000 Direct labor-hours 2,000 8,000 Total fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 118,400 $ 87,200 Variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 2.10 Variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour $ 3.30 The predetermined overhead rate for the Milling Department is closest to:

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Answer:

Estimated manufacturing overhead rate= $9.5 per machine hour

Explanation:

Giving the following information:

The Milling Department’s predetermined overhead rate is based on machine-hours.

Machine-hours 16,000

total fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 118,400

Variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 2.10

To calculate the estimated manufacturing overhead rate we need to use the following formula:

Estimated manufacturing overhead rate= total estimated overhead costs for the period/ total amount of allocation base

Estimated manufacturing overhead rate= (118,400/16,000) + 2.1= $9.5 per machine hour