Vaughn manufactures mattresses for the hotel industry. It has
two products, Downy and Firm, and total overhead of $507000. The
company plans to manufacture 220 Downy mattresses and 290 Firm
mattresses this year. In manufacturing the mattresses, the company
must perform 730 material moves for the Downy and 340 for the Firm;
it processes 112 purchase orders for the Downy and 91 for the Firm;
and the company’s employees work 2600 direct labour hours on the
Downy product and 3900 on the Firm. Vaughn’s total material
handling costs are $305000 and its total purchasing costs are
$202000.
Under a traditional costing approach based on direct labour hours,
how much overhead would be assigned to the Downy product?
$202800 |
$253500 |
$304200 |
$380250 |
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