a. Overhead rate = Estimated manufacturing overhead costs/Estimated direct labor hours = $510000/[(10000 x 2) + (40000 x 1)] = $510000/[20000 + 40000] = $510000/60000 = $8.50 per direct labor hour
Baseball Caps | Fedoras | |
Direct materials | 11.00 | 24.00 |
Direct labor | 6.00 | 12.00 |
Manufacturing overhead | 8.50 | 17.00 |
Unit product cost $ | 25.50 | 53.00 |
b.
Baseball Caps | Fedoras | ||||||
Activity | Estimated OH costs | Total Expected Activity | Activity Rate | Expected Activity | OH Cost | Expected Activity | OH Cost |
Machine setups | 204000 | 2400 | 85.00 | 800 | 68000 | 1600 | 136000 |
Purchase orders | 43500 | 600 | 72.50 | 500 | 36250 | 100 | 7250 |
Machine-hours | 105000 | 17500 | 6.00 | 7000 | 42000 | 10500 | 63000 |
Maintenance requests | 157500 | 1500 | 105.00 | 650 | 68250 | 850 | 89250 |
Total $ | 510000 | 214500 | 295500 | ||||
Number of units produced | 40000 | 10000 | |||||
Overhead cost per unit $ | 5.3625 | 29.55 |
Baseball Caps | Fedoras | |
Direct materials | 11.00 | 24.00 |
Direct labor | 6.00 | 12.00 |
Manufacturing overhead | 5.36 | 29.55 |
Unit product cost $ | 22.36 | 65.55 |
Kindly round off as required since no instructions have been provided with the question regarding rounding off.
c. Machine setups and machine-hours for Fedoras are comparatively much higher than for Baseball caps and contribute to the difference in the overhead cost per the current allocation method and the activity-based allocation method.
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