Purchase Solution

Dexter Company's Manufacturing Overhead Cost

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Dexter Company uses a standard cost system and applies manufacturing overhead cost to units of product on the basis of standard direct labor-hours (DLHs). Information on Dexter Company's manufacturing overhead costs for last period is given below:

Actual hours worked 40,000 DLHs
Standard hours allowed for actual production 38,000 DLHs
Denominator hours used in computing the predetermined overhead rate 35,000 DLHs
Predetermined overhead rate 4 per DLH
Actual overhead costs incurred 150,000

Given these data, the under- or overapplied overhead cost for the period would be:

8,000 underapplied
10,000 underapplied
10,000 overapplied
2,000 overapplied

Purchase this Solution

Solution provided by:
Education
  • BE, Bangalore University, India
  • MS, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Recent Feedback
  • "Your explanation to the answers were very helpful."
  • "What does 1 and 0 means in the repair column?"
  • "Went through all of the formulas, excellent work! This really helped me!"
  • "try others as well please"
  • "Thank you, this helped a lot. I was not sure how to plug in those numbers to a formula. This was a great help. Now I have to figure out how to explain cost of capital is used in net present value analysis, and how cost of capital is used in net present value analysis. This stuff gets confusing."
Purchase this Solution


Free BrainMass Quizzes
Change and Resistance within Organizations

This quiz intended to help students understand change and resistance in organizations

Managing the Older Worker

This quiz will let you know some of the basics of dealing with older workers. This is increasingly important for managers and human resource workers as many countries are facing an increase in older people in the workforce

Employee Orientation

Test your knowledge of employee orientation with this fun and informative quiz. This quiz is meant for beginner and advanced students as well as professionals already working in the HR field.

Operations Management

This quiz tests a student's knowledge about Operations Management

Organizational Leadership Quiz

This quiz prepares a person to do well when it comes to studying organizational leadership in their studies.