Question: Peter's Printers has contracts to complete the weekly attachments required by forty-six customers.For 2019, overall production cost estimates for an annual production capacity of 12

Peter's Printers has contracts to complete the weekly attachments required by forty-six customers. For 2019, overall production cost estimates for an annual production capacity of 12 million pages total $420,000.

For 2019, Peter's Printers decided to evaluate the use of additional cost pools. After analyzing overall manufacturing costs, it was determined that the number of design changes, installations, and inspections were the primary manufacturing overall cost factors. The following information was collected during the analysis:

Cost pool

General production costs

Design changes

60.000 $

Installations

320.000

controls

40.000

Total production overheads

420.000 $

During 2019, two customers, World Makers and Happy Studios, are expected to use the following print services:

Activity

World Makers

Happy Studios

Pages

60.000

76.000

Design changes

10

0

Installations

20

10

controls

30

38


  1. 1. What is the cost factor ratio if overall production costs are considered to be a large cost pool and assigned based on a production capacity of 12 million sheets?

  1. 2. If we treat printed pages as the only overhead factor, what is the production overhead cost estimate for World Makers in 2019?

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