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P4-4 P4-5 P4-10 Week 4 Problems

P4-4 P4-5 P4-10 Week 4 Problems
 
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
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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               Inprocess
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 overapplied factory overhead, in total, at the end ofthe month under each of the methods.
4. Which method would you recommend, and why? 
 
TUTORIAL PREVIEW
Problem 4-4
 
 
Units
1,000
2,000
4,000
Expenses
 
 
 
 
Variable:
 
 
 
Indirect materials
            5,000
          10,000
          20,000
Indirect labor
          10,000
          20,000
          40,000
Power
            7,500
          15,000
          30,000
 
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