Wholesome Oats makes several lines of breakfast cereals using large batch manufacturing. It takes three departmentsPrepping, Blending,

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Wholesome Oats makes several lines of breakfast cereals using large batch manufacturing. It takes three departments—Prepping, Blending, and Boxing—to make the products. It also has a general plant overhead pool for scheduling, inspection, and related activities, as suggested by the following table. Currently all of the overhead is charged out based on direct labor hours.


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a. Calculate the plant-wide overhead rate for Wholesome Oats using direct labor hours as the driver.

b. How much overhead gets charged to each department?

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Managerial Accounting An Integrative Approach

ISBN: 9780999500491

2nd Edition

Authors: C J Mcnair Connoly, Kenneth Merchant

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