Munoz Sporting Equipment manufactures baseball bats and tennis rackets. Department B produces the baseball bats, and Department T produces the tennis rackets. Munoz currently uses plantwide allocation to allocate its overhead to all products. Direct labor cost is the allocation base. The rate used is 200 percent of direct labor cost. Last year, revenue, materials, and direct labor were as follows.
Baseball Bats | Tennis Rackets | |||||
Sales revenue | $ | 1,540,000 | $ | 1,025,000 | ||
Direct labor | 260,000 | 130,000 | ||||
Direct materials | 556,000 | 289,000 | ||||
Required:
a. Compute the profit for each product using
plantwide allocation.
b. Maria, the manager of Department T, was
convinced that tennis rackets were really more profitable than
baseball bats. She asked her colleague in accounting to break down
the overhead costs for the two departments. She discovered that had
department rates been used, Department B would have had a rate of
150 percent of direct labor cost and Department T would have had a
rate of 300 percent of direct labor cost. Recompute the profits for
each product using each department’s allocation rate (based on
direct labor cost).
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