Main Street Ice Cream Company uses a plant-wide allocation method to allocate overhead based on direct labor-hours at a rate of $2 per labor-hour. Strawberry and vanilla flavors are produced in Department SV.
Chocolate is produced in Department C.
Sven manages Department SV and Charlene manages Department C. The product costs (per 1,000 gallons) follow:
Strawberry Vanilla Chocolate
Direct labor $755 $830 $1,130
Raw materials 805 505 605
Required:
a) If the number of hours of labor per 1,000 gallons is 56 for strawberry, 66 for vanilla and 100 for chocolate, compute the total cost of 1,000 gallons of each flavor using plant-wide allocation.
Total Cost
Strawberry
Vanilla
Chocolate
b) Charlene's department uses older, outdated machines. She believes that her department is being allocated some of the overhead of Department SV, which recently bought state-of- the-art machines.
After she requested that overhead costs be broken down by department, the following information was discovered:
Department SV Department C
Overhead $75,750 $14,274
Machine-hours 25,250 36,500
Labor-hours 25,250 18,300
Using machine-hours as the department allocation base for Department SV and labor-hours as the department allocation base for Department C, compute the allocation rate for each.
(Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
Allocation Rate
Department SV per machine hour
Department C per labor hour