Platinum Web Services designs and maintains websites for small business entrepreneurs. Competition has been intensifying in recent years and the company has been losing business to larger web design firms. Summary data concerning the last two years of operations follow:
Last Year This Year
Estimated hours of service demanded 1,600 1,350
Estimated overhead cost $120,000 $120,000
Actual hours of service provided 1,500 1,250
Actual overhead cost incurred $120,000 $120,000
Hours of service available at capacity 2,400 2,400
The company applies its overhead costs to jobs using the hours of service provided as the allocation base. For example, this year and last year, 34 service-hours were required to maintain the website for a small company called Verde Consulting. All of Platinum's overhead costs are fixed, and the actual overhead cost incurred was exactly as estimated at the beginning of the year in last year and this year.
Required:
Required:
a. Platinum Web Services computes Its predetermined overhead rate at the beginning of each year based on the estimated overhead cost and the estimated hours of service demanded for the year. Using this approach, how much overhead would have been applied to the Verde Consulting job last year? How about this year?
b. The president of Platinum Web Services has heard that some companies in the industry have changed to a system of computing the predetermined overhead rate based on the hours of service available at capacity He would like to know what effect this method would have on job costs. How much overhead cost would have been applied to the Verde Consulting job last year using this method? How much would have been applied this year?
c. If Platinum computes its predetermined overhead rate based on the hours of service available at capacity as in (2) above. how much unused capacity cost would the company have incurred last year? This year?
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