Comfort Company produces leather office chairs. The standard cost per chair is as follows: During 2017, Comfort

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Comfort Company produces leather office chairs. The standard cost per chair is as follows:

$35 Direct materials Direct labour 15 Variable overhead (2 machine-hours at $4.00)* Fixed overhead (2 machine-hours at $


During 2017, Comfort Company produced and sold 12,000 office chairs. Management believes that the denominator level of activity represents 75% of theoretical capacity and 80% of practical capacity.


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1. Calculate the total overhead costs at the following levels of activity: theoretical, practical, denominator, and actual (2017).

2. Assuming Comfort Company can sell all of the chairs it can produce for $100 per unit, calculate the opportunity loss of producing 12,000 chairs in 2017 compared to the following capacity utilization alternatives: theoretical, practical, and denominator.

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Managerial Accounting

ISBN: 9781259275814

11th Canadian Edition

Authors: Ray H Garrison, Alan Webb, Theresa Libby

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