Question

Sweeten Company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of March and no beginning inventories. The company has two manufacturing departments--Molding and Fabrication. It started, completed, and sold only two jobs during March—Job P and Job Q. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Jobs P and Q (all data and questions relate to the month of March):

	Molding			Fabrication			Total
Estimated total machine-hours used		2,500			1,500			4,000
Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead	$	10,750		$	15,450		$	26,200
Estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour	$	1.70		$	2.50

	Job P			Job Q
Direct materials	$	16,000		$	9,500
Direct labor cost	$	23,400		$	8,700
Actual machine-hours used:
Molding		2,000			1,100
Fabrication		900			1,200
Total		2,900			2,300

Sweeten Company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month.

Required:

For questions 1-8, assume that Sweeten Company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with machine-hours as the allocation base. For questions 9-15, assume that the company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine-hours as the allocation base in both departments.

4. If Job P included 20 units, what was its unit product cost?

Answer 1