Question: looking to attain the highest grade possible, please verify if this is correct. IF I am missing any calcuations, please include. Thank you, Question 1
looking to attain the highest grade possible, please verify if this is correct. IF I am missing any calcuations, please include.
Thank you,
| Question 1 (10 Marks) | ||||||||||||||||
| Hot Potato Company manufactures two products, Product 2 and Product 8. Product 8 is of fairly recent origin, having been developed as an attempt to enter a market closely related to that of Product 2. Product 8 is the more complex of the two products, requiring two hours of direct labour time per unit to manufacture compared to one hour of direct labour time for Product 2. Product 8 is produced on an automated production line. Overhead is currently assigned to the products on the basis of direct labour-hours. The company estimated it would incur a total of $450,000 in manufacturing overhead costs and produce 7,500 units of Product 8 and 30,000 units of Product 2 during the current year. Unit costs for materials and direct labour are: | ||||||||||||||||
| Product 2 | Product 8 | |||||||||||||||
| Direct Labour | 10 | 20 | ||||||||||||||
| Direct Material | 12 | 25 | ||||||||||||||
| Required: | ||||||||||||||||
| a. Compute the predetermined overhead rate under the current method of allocation and determine the unit product cost of each product for the current year. (5 marks) | ||||||||||||||||
| Product 2 | product 8 | total | ||||||||||||||
| Direct labour hr/unit | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| units to be made | 30,000 | 7,500 | ||||||||||||||
| total direct labour hours | 30,000 | 15,000 | 45,000 | |||||||||||||
| overhead cost | 450,000 | |||||||||||||||
| Total direct labour hours | 45,000 | |||||||||||||||
| overhead rate /labour Hr | 10 | |||||||||||||||
| Product 2 | Product 8 | |||||||||||||||
| Direct materials | 12 | 25 | ||||||||||||||
| direct labour | 10 | 20 | ||||||||||||||
| overhead cost | 10 | 20 | ||||||||||||||
| total unit cost | 32 | 65 | ||||||||||||||
| b. The company's overhead costs can be attributed to four major activities. These activities and the amount of overhead cost attributable to each for the current year are given below: (5 marks) | ||||||||||||||||
| Activity Costs Pools | Expected Activity | |||||||||||||||
| Machine set-ups required | Estimated Overhead Costs | Product 2 | Product 8 | Total | Activity Rate | |||||||||||
| Purchase orders issued | $180,000 | 600 | 1,200 | 1,800 | 100 | |||||||||||
| Machine-hours required | 38,382 | 500 | 100 | 600 | 63.97 | |||||||||||
| Maintenance requests issued | 92,650 | 6,800 | 10,200 | 17,000 | 5.45 | |||||||||||
| 138,968 | 693 | 907 | 1,600 | 86.86 | ||||||||||||
| $450,000 | ||||||||||||||||
| Using the data above and an activity-based costing approach, determine the unit product cost of each product for the current year. | ||||||||||||||||
| Activity Costs Pools | Product 2 | Product 8 | Total | |||||||||||||
| Machine setup | 60,000 | 120,000 | 180,000 | (Activity Rate * Used by Product) | ||||||||||||
| Purchase orders | 31,985 | 6,397 | 38,382 | |||||||||||||
| Machine hours | 37,060 | 55,590 | 92,650 | |||||||||||||
| maintenance requests | 60,191 | 78,777 | 138,968 | (Overhead Rate*DLH PU) | ||||||||||||
| over head costs | 189,236 | 260,764 | 450,000 | |||||||||||||
| units to be made | 30,000 | 7,500 | ||||||||||||||
| overhead cost/ unit | 6.31. | 34.77, | ||||||||||||||
| Unit product Costs | Product 2 | Product 8 | ||||||||||||||
| direct material | 12 | 25 | ||||||||||||||
| Direct labour | 10 | 20 | ||||||||||||||
| Overhead cost | 6.31 | 34.77 | ||||||||||||||
| Total unit prodcut costs | 28.31 | 79.77 | ||||||||||||||
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