Beautiful Bottles Pty Ltd, bottle manufacturer for the food industry, has just installed a job order costing

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Beautiful Bottles Pty Ltd, bottle manufacturer for the food industry, has just installed a job order costing system. The company uses machine hours to apply its overhead to work in process. On 1 May 2025, management estimated that the company would incur $680 000 in manufacturing overhead costs and 64 000 machine hours for the coming year.

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(a) Calculate the predetermined overhead rate. Assume that Beautiful Bottles Pty Ltd uses only 61 000 machine hours and incurs the following costs:

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(b) Calculate any under- or over-applied overhead.

(c) Prepare the journal entry to write off any under- or over-applied overhead against cost of goods sold.

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Accounting

ISBN: 9780730382737

11th Edition

Authors: John Hoggett, John Medlin, Keryn Chalmers, Claire Beattie

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