Question

Main Street Ice Cream Company uses a plantwide 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 thousand gallons) follow:
Strawberry Vanilla Chocolate
Direct labor (per 1,000 gallons) $ 766 $ 841 $ 1,141
Raw materials (per 1,000 gallons) 816 516 616
Required: .
1. If the number of hours of labor per 1,000 gallons is 60 for strawberry, 70 for vanilla, and 100 for chocolate, compute the total cost of 1,000 gallons of each flavor using plantwide allocation. (Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

Answer 1

Answer:

$1,702 , $1,497, and $1,957

Explanation:

The computation of the total cost is shown below:

Particulars Strawberry Vanilla Chocolate

Direct Labor $766          $841  $1,141

Direct Material  $816          $516  $616

Overhead   $120               $140        $200

                        (60 × 2)           (70 × 2)   (100 ×2)

Total Cost   $1,702           $1,497    $1,957

We simply added the direct labor cost, direct material cost and the overhead cost so that the total cost could come