Mansfield Heating & Cooling installs and services commercial heating and cooling systems. Mansfield uses job costing to

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Mansfield Heating & Cooling installs and services commercial heating and cooling systems. Mansfield uses job costing to calculate the cost of its jobs. Overhead is allocated to each job based on the number of direct labor hours spent on that job. At the beginning of the current year, Mansfield estimated that its overhead for the coming year would be $60,000. It also anticipated using 4,000 direct labor hours for the year. In May, Mansfield started and completed the following two jobs:
Job 101 Job 102
Direct materials used ...................................................$17,000................$13,000
Direct labor hours used .......................................................170......................72
Mansfield paid a $22 per hour wage rate to the employees who worked on these two jobs.
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1. What is Mansfield's predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor hours?
2. Calculate the overhead to be allocated based on direct labor hours to each of the two jobs.
3. What is the total cost of Job 101? What is the total cost of Job 102?
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Managerial Accounting

ISBN: 978-0132890540

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Authors: Karen W. Braun, Wendy M. Tietz

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