Q1) Curtis Corporation is beginning in manufacture Mighty Mint, new mouthwash in small spray container. Product will be sold to wholesalers and large drugstore chains in packages of 30 containers for $18 per package. Management assigns $200,000 of sited manufacturing overhead costs to Mighty Mint. Manufacturing cost per package of 30 containers of expected production of 100,000 packages is as follows;

 Basically, all overhead costs are fixed. Some of fixed overhead costs are direct costs to particular models and others are common fixed costs.

Estimated total overhead

Lennon allocates overhead costs to products using single overhead rate developed as follows. Estimated total overhead is divided by estimated direct labor cost. This results in overhead rate per labour dollar. This rate is used to allocate standard over-head to products. Below are estimates of sales and direct labour. These values simply the overhead rate of $1.5385 per labour dollar ($10,000,000 ÷ $6,500,000).

 Required

As it is showing loss, controller of Lennon has asked you to analyze whether Model 599 must be dropped. You must suppose that direct fixed costs will be avoided if model is dropped but common fixed costs will not be model is dropped.

describe why the method used to allocate costs at Lennon results in "unreasonably high" charges to the Model 599 pump.