Sweeten Company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of March and no beginning inventories. The company has two manufacturin
g departments--Molding and Fabrication. It started, completed, and sold only two jobs during March—Job P and Job Q. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Jobs P and Q (all data and questions relate to the month of March): Molding Fabrication Total Estimated total machine-hours used 2,500 1,500 4,000 Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead $ 10,000 $ 15,000 $ 25,000 Estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 1.40 $ 2.20 Job P Job Q Direct materials $ 13,000 $ 8,000 Direct labor cost $ 21,000 $ 7,500 Actual machine-hours used: Molding 1,700 800 Fabrication 600 900 Total 2,300 1,700 Sweeten Company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month. Required: For questions 1-8, assume that Sweeten Company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with machine-hours as the allocation base. For questions 9-15, assume that the company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine-hours as the allocation base in both departments.
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On December 31, 2022, the book value of the equipment comes out to be $36,840 with monthly depreciation of $620.
Option D is the correct answer.
<h3>What is meant by depreciation?</h3>Depreciation is a method that applies to tangible fixed assets where the fall in the value of an asset has been recorded.
Given values:
The purchase cost of equipment: $44,280
Monthly depreciation: $620
<u>Step-1</u> Computation of annual depreciation charges:
<u>Step-2</u> Computation of book value of the equipment at the year-end:
Therefore, when the company purchases equipment at $44,280 with annual depreciation is $7,440, then the equipment's book value comes out to be $36,840 at the year-end.
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