Question

A firm produces and sells two products, Plus and Max. The following information is available relating to setup costs (a part of factory overhead): Plus Max Units produced 200 16,800 Batch size (units) 20 480 Number of setups 10 35 Direct labor hours per unit 6 6 Total direct labor hours 1,200 100,800 Cost per setup $ 2,040 Total setup cost $ 91,800 With traditional allocation of overhead costs, using direct labor hours as the allocation base, the setup cost portion of overhead that is allocated to each unit of product for Plus and Max, respectively is:

Answer 1

Answer:

$5.4 and $5.4

Explanation:

The formula and the computation is shown below:

= Total setup cost ÷ total direct labor hours

= $91,800 ÷ 102,000 hours

= $0.9

For plus:

Setup cost is

= $0.9 × 6

= $5.4

And,

For Max:

= $0.9 × 6

= $5.4

We simply multiplied the per unit with the direct labor per unit so that the allocation to each unit could come