Lawrence Company applies manufacturing overhead to jobs based on machine hours used.

Overhead costs are estimated to be $300,000.

Estimated machine hours are 125,000 hours, and estimated direct labor hours are 50,000 hours.

During the year, actual overhead costs totaled $322,0000 and it incurred 130,000 machine hours and 46,000 direct labor hours.

What is the amount of over or under-allocated overhead?

Under/over applied overhead = $10,000 underallocated

Explanation:

Giving the following information:

Overhead costs are estimated to be $300,000.

The estimated machine hours are 125,000 hours.

During the year, actual overhead costs totaled $322,0000 and it incurred 130,000 machine hours.

First, we need to calculate the estimated manufacturing overhead rate:

Estimated manufacturing overhead rate = total estimated overhead costs for the period / total amount of allocation base

Estimated manufacturing overhead rate = 300,000/125,000 = $2.4 per machine hour

Now, we can allocate overhead

Allocated MOH = Estimated manufacturing overhead rate * Actual amount of allocation base

Allocated MOH = 2.4*130,000 = $312,000

Finally, we determine the under/over allocation:

Under/over applied overhead = real overhead - allocated overhead

Under/over applied overhead = 322,000 - 312,000 = $10,000 underallocated