Question

Multiple Production Department Factory Overhead Rates

Spotted Cow Dairy Company manufactures three products—whole milk, skim milk, and cream—in two production departments, Blending and Packing. The factory overhead for Spotted Cow Dairy is $613,000.

The three products consume both machine hours and direct labor hours in the two production departments as follows:

		Direct Labor Hours			Machine Hours
Blending Department
Whole milk			800			1,090
Skim milk			510			870
Cream			390			690
			1,700			2,650
Packing Department
Whole milk			240			1,720
Skim milk			250			1,050
Cream			225			1,130
			715			3,900
	Total		2,415			6,550

The management of Spotted Cow Dairy Company now plans to use the multiple production department factory overhead rate method. The total factory overhead associated with each department is as follows:

Blending Department	$340,000
Packing Department	273,000
Total	$613,000

Required:

If required, round all amounts to the nearest dollar.

1. Determine the multiple production department factory overhead rates, using direct labor hours for the Blending Department and machine hours for the Packing Department.

Blending Department	$ per direct labor hour
Packing Department	$ per machine hour

2. Determine the product factory overhead costs, using the multiple production department rates in (1).

	Whole milk		Skim milk		Cream
Blending Department factory overhead	$		$		$
Packing Department factory overhead
Total factory overhead	$		$

Answer 1

1	Blending Department = Factory Overhead/Direct Labor Hour
			$340000/1700
		$	200	direct labor hour
	Packing Department = Factory Overhead/Machine Hours
			$273000/3900
		$	70	machine labor hour
2		Whole milk		Skim milk		Cream
	Blending Department factory overhead	160000		102000		78000
		(800*200)		(510*200)		(390*200)
	Packing Department factory overhead	120400		73500		79100
		(1720*70)		(1050*70)		(1130*70)
	Total factory overhead	280400		175500		157100