Two-Stage Allocation and Product Costing
Mets Products produces baseball caps and T-shirts. Most of the production is done by machine. Data on operations and costs for October follow:
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Baseball Caps
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T-Shirts
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Total
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Units produced
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10,000
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5,000
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15,000
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Machine-hours used
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1,000
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800
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1,800
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Direct labor-hours
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200
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120
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320
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Direct materials costs
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$12,000
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$8,000
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$20,000
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Direct labor costs
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$ 4,000
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$2,400
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$ 6,400
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Manufacturing overhead costs
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$22,200
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Management asks the firm's cost accountant to compute product costs. The accountant first assigns overhead costs to two pools: overhead related to direct materials and overhead related to machine hours. The analysis of overhead accounts by the cost accountant follows:
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Account
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Amount
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Related to:
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Utilities
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$4,000
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Machine-hours
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Supplies
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2,800
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Materials
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Machine depreciation and maintenance .
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8,800
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Machine-hours
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Purchasing and storing materials
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3,200
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Materials
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Miscellaneous
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3,400
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Machine-hours
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Required
a. Compute the predetermined overhead rates assuming that Mets Products uses machine-hours to allocate machine-related overhead costs and materials costs to allocate materials-related overhead costs.
b. Compute the total costs of production and the cost per unit for each of the two products for October.