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Week 4 P4-4 P4-5 P4-10 P4-4 Listed below are the budgeted factory overhead costs for 2011 for Muncie Manufacturing, Inc.., at the projected level of 2,000 units


Week 4 P4-4 P4-5 P4-10 

P4-4 Listed below are the budgeted factory overhead costs for 2011 for Muncie Manufacturing, Inc.., at the projected level of 2,000 units:

EXPENSES:
indirect materials...............................................$ 10,000
Indirect labor...................................................... 20,000
Power................................................................ 15,000
Straight-line depreciation..................................... 30,000
Factory property Tax........................................... 28,000
Factory Insurance............................................... 12,000
 
Total....................................................................$115,000 


Required: 
Prepare flexible budgets for factory overhead at the 1,000, 2,000, and 4,000 unit levels. (Hint: You must first decide which of the listed costs should be considered variable and which should be fixed.)

 
P4-5 Cake Products Inc, is divided into five departments, mixing, blending, finishing, factory office and building maintenance. The first three departments are engaged in production work. Factory Office and Building Maintenance are service departments. During the month of June, the following factory overhead was incurred for the various departments:              

 
mixing             $21,000                       factory office $9,000
Blending          $18,000                       building maintenance $6,400
finishing          $25,000  

 
The bases for distributing service department expenses to the other departments follow:


Building maintenance - on the basis of floor space occupied by the other departments as follows: mixing 10,000 sqft, blending $4,500 sqft, finishing 10,500 sqft and factory office 7,000 sq ft. 

Factory office - on the basis of number of employees as follows : mixing 30, blending 20 and finishing 50 

Prepare schedules showing the distribution of the service departments expenses for the following: 

1. The direct distribution method 
2. The sequential distribution method in the order of number of other departments served.

 

P4-10 Con-Aggie Manufacturing Company is studying the results of applying factory overhead to production. The following data have been used: estimated factory overhead: $60,000; estimated materials costs, $50,000; estimated direct labor costs $60,000; estimated direct labor hours 10,000; estimated machine hours 20,000; work in process at the beginning of the month, none.

 
The actual factory overhead incurred for the month of November was $75,000, and the production statistics on November 30 are as follows:
Job
Materials Cost
Direct Labor Costs
Direct Labor Hours
Machine Hours
Date Jobs Completed
101
5,000
6,000
1000
3,000
10-Nov
102
7,000
12,000
2,000
3,200
14-Nov
103
8,000
13,500
2,500
4,000
20-Nov
104
9,000
15,600
2,600
3,400
In process
105
10,000
29,000
4,500
6,500
26-Nov
106
11,000
2,400
400
1,500
In process
Total
50,000
78,500
13,000
21,600
 

 
Required:
1. Compute the predetermined rate, based on the following:
a. direct labor cost, b. direct labor hours, c. machine hours.

2. Using each of the methods, compute the estimated total cost of each job at the end of the month.
3. Determine the under- or over applied factory overhead, in total, at the end ofthe month under each of the methods.
4. Which method would you recommend, and why?

 
SOLUTION PREVIEW
Problem 4-10
1.
Predetermined rates:
 
 
 
a.
Direct labor cost rate
 
Estimated overhead
 
Estimated labor cost
 
100%
=
     60,000
 ÷
     60,000
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
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