Ashton Construction assembles residential houses. It uses a job-costing system with two direct-cost categories (direct materials and direct labor) and one indirect-cost pool (assembly support). Direct labor-hours is the allocation base for assembly support costs. In December 2016, Ashton budgets 2017 assembly-support costs to be $ 8 comma 300 comma 000 and 2017 direct labor-hours to be 166 comma 000. At the end of 2017, Ashton is comparing the costs of several jobs that were started and completed in 2017. Compute the (a) budgeted indirect-cost rate and (b) actual indirect-cost rate. Question 3 options: $50; $35 $35; $50

With this information, we can calculate the budgeted indirect cost rate. However, we can't calculate the actual indirect cost rate. I will provide the formula for both and a small example of the actual indirect cost rate.

To calculate the budgeted indirect cost rate, we need to use the following formula:

Budgeted indirect cost rate= total estimated indirect costs for the period/ total amount of allocation base

Budgeted indirect cost rate= 8,300,000/166,000= $50 per direct labor hour.

Let's suppose that actual indirect cost was of 8,000,000 and actual direct labor hours of 175,000:

Actual indirect cost rate= total actual indirect costs for the period/ total amount of allocation base

Actual indirect cost rate= 8,000,000/175,000= $45.71 per direct labor hour