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Larkspur Corp. manufactures bird feeders. It currently has two product lines, the standard and the deluxe. Larkspur has a total of $184,060 in overhead.

The company has identified the following information about its overhead activity pools and the two product lines:

  Activity Pools

Cost Driver

Cost

Assigned

to Pool

Quantity Consumed

by

Standard

Quantity Consumed

by

Deluxe

  Material handling

Number of

  moves

 

$

2,440

 

19 moves

42 moves

  Quality control

Number of   inspections

 

$

33,120

 

190 inspections

155 inspections

  Machine

      maintenance

Number of

 machine hrs

 

$

148,500

 

4,600 machine hours

5,300 machine hours

Requirement 1:

Suppose Larkspur used a traditional costing system with machine hours as the cost driver. Determine the amount of overhead assigned to each product line.

 

Overhead assigned

 

  Standard Model

$

 

 

  Deluxe Model

$

 

 

Requirement 2:

Calculate the activity rates for each cost pool in Larkspur's ABC system. 

Requirement 2:

Calculate the activity rates for each cost pool in Larkspur's ABC system.

Activity Rates

 

  Material Handling

$

 

  per move  

 

  Quality Control

$

 

  per inspection  

 

  Maintenance

$

 

  per machine hour

 

Requirement 3:

Calculate the amount of overhead that Larkspur will assign to the standard line if it uses an ABC system. (Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

  Standard Model:

 

 

  Material Handling

$

 

  Quality Control

$

 

  Maintenance

$

 

 

 

 

        Total Overhead Assigned

$

 

Requirement 3:

Calculate the amount of overhead that Larkspur will assign to the standard line if it uses an ABC system.

Requirement 4:

Determine the amount of overhead Larkspur will assign to the deluxe line if it uses an ABC system.

  Deluxe Model:

 

 

 

 

  Material Handling

$

 

 

 

  Quality Control

$

 

 

 

  Maintenance

$

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        Total Overhead Assigned

$

 

 

 

2.

Tyler Tooling Company uses a job order costing system with overhead applied to products on the basis of machine hours. For the upcoming year, the company estimated its total manufacturing overhead cost at $241,410 and total machine hours at 61,900. During the first month of operations, the company worked on three jobs and recorded the following actual direct materials cost, direct labor cost, and machine hours for each job:

 

Job 101

Job 102

Job 103

Total

  Direct materials cost

$11,700

$7,500

$5,000

$24,200

  Direct labor cost

$17,300

$5,100

$4,300

$26,700

  Machine hours

1,300 hours

2,200 hours

1,000 hours

4,500 hours

 

Job 101 was completed and sold for $51,800.
Job 102 was completed but not sold.
Job 103 is still in process.

Actual overhead costs recorded during the first month of operations totaled $18,150.

Requirement 1:

Calculate the predetermined overhead rate.

Requirement 2:
Compute the total manufacturing overhead applied to the Work in Process Inventory account during the first month of operations.

 

Requirement 3:
Compute the balance in the Work in Process Inventory account at the end of the first month.

Requirement 4:

How much gross profit would the company report during the first month of operations before making an adjustment for over- or underapplied manufacturing overhead?

Requirement 5:

Determine the balance in the Manufacturing Overhead account at the end of the first month. Is it over- or underapplied?

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