Various cost and sales data for Meriwell Company for the just completed year appear in the worksheet
Question:
Various cost and sales data for Meriwell Company for the just completed year appear in the worksheet below:
Finished goods inventory, beginning | $20,000 |
Finished goods inventory, ending | $40,000 |
Depreciation, factory | $27,000 |
Administrative expenses | $110,000 |
Utilities, factory | $8,000 |
Maintenance, factory | $40,000 |
Supplies, factory | $11,000 |
Insurance, factory | $4,000 |
Purchases of raw materials | $125,000 |
Raw materials inventory, beginning | $9,000 |
Raw materials inventory, ending | $6,000 |
Direct labor | $70,000 |
Indirect labor | $15,000 |
Work in process inventory, beginning | $17,000 |
Work in process inventory, ending | $30,000 |
Sales | $500,000 |
Selling expenses | $80,000 |
1. Prepare a schedule of cost of goods manufactured.
2. Prepare an income statement.
3. Assume that the company produced the equivalent of 10,000 units of product the year juts completed. What was the average cost per nit for direct materials? What was the average cost per unit for factory depreciation?
4. Assume that the company expects to produce 15,000 units of product during the coming year. What average cost per unit and what total cost would you expect the company to incur for direct materials at this level of activity for factory depreciation? (In preparing you answer, assume that direct materials are a variable cost and that depreciation is a fixed cost; also assume that deprecation is computed on a straight-line basis).
5. As the manger responsible for production costs, explain to the president any difference in the average costs per unit between (3) and (4) above.
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Managerial Accounting
ISBN: 978-0697789938
13th Edition
Authors: Ray H. Garrison, Eric W. Noreen, Peter C. Brewer