Cenatrac produces two products: hand soap and sanitizer. During June, 8,000 containers of hand soap and 6,000 containers of sanitizer were produced. Total overhead costs of $34,000 were incurred. The following information related to overhead costs was available:
Activity Cost Driver Total Cost
Materials handling Number of requisitions $7,000
Machine setups Number of setups 12,000
Quality inspections Number of inspections 15,000
The cost driver volume for each product was as follows:
Cost Driver Hand soap Sanitizer Total
Number of requisitions 25 15 40
Number of setups 12 13 25
Number of inspections 90 160 250
Instructions (a) Compute the overhead rate for each activity.
(b) Assign the manufacturing overhead costs for June to the two products using activity-based costing, and determine the overhead cost per unit
a | ||||||
Activity | Total Cost | Total activity | Activity rate | |||
Materials handling | 7000 | 40 | 175 | |||
Machine setups | 12000 | 25 | 480 | |||
Quality inspections | 15000 | 250 | 60 | |||
b | ||||||
Hand soap | Sanitizer | |||||
Activity | Activity | Activity rate | Overhead assigned | Activity | Activity rate | Overhead assigned |
Materials handling | 25 | 175 | 4375 | 15 | 175 | 2625 |
Machine setups | 12 | 480 | 5760 | 13 | 480 | 6240 |
Quality inspections | 90 | 60 | 5400 | 160 | 60 | 9600 |
Total overhead assigned | 15535 | 18465 | ||||
Divided by units | 8000 | 6000 | ||||
Overhead cost per unit | 1.94 | 3.08 | ||||
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