Echher Corporation uses a job-order costing system and applies overhead to jobs using a predetermined overhead rate. During the year the company's Finished Goods inventory account was debited for $218,000 and credited for $218,500. The ending balance in the Finished Goods inventory account was $13,000. At the end of the year, manufacturing overhead was overapplied by $36,700.
-The manufacturing overhead for the year was:
A) $6,000 overapplied
B) $10,000 overapplied
C) $10,000 underapplied
D) $4,000 underapplied

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Predetermined overhead rate = Estimated total manufacturing overhead cost ÷ Estimated total amount of the allocation base
Predetermined overhead rate = $50,000 ÷ 20,000 direct labor-hours = $2.50 per direct labor-hour
Overhead over or underapplied
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Echher Corporation Uses a Job-Order Costing System and Applies Overhead