Question

Manufacturing overhead consists of three different costs; (1) machine supplies (variable), (2) property taxes (fixed), and (3) plant maintenance (semivariable). July's overhead costs were $179,000 for machine supplies, $25,700 for property taxes, and $1,250,000 for plant maintenance.

Answer 1

Answer:

(A) machine supplies $720,000 property taxes $25,700 since it is a fixed cost (B) plant maintenance cost $1,136,000, fixed cost high level of activity $114,600, low level of activity $114,700, variable cost per machine hour $17.05 per hour (C) 25.98 per hour

Explanation:

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The following selected data were taken from the accounting records of Colorado Enterprise

Month. Machine Hours. Manufacturing overhead

May. 46,000. $899,000

June. 60,000. $1,130,000

July. 68,000. $1,274,000

August. 52,000. $980,000

Here is the solution

(A) To determine the machine supplies and property for may

899,000 - 179,000

=720,000

To calculate the property taxes, since property taxes is a fixed cost, it is not affected by increases or decreases in the volume of output. It is $25,700

(B) To determine the Maintenance cost

We calculate maintenance cost, we use the level of activity at high level

1,250,000 - ( 68,000 + 46,000)

= 1,250,000 - 114,000

= $1,136,000

To calculate the monthly fixed cost and the variable cost per machine hour

Hour. Total cost

High output. 68,000. 1,274,000

Low output. 46,000. 899,000

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22,000. 375,000

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Variable cost per machine hour

=375,000/22,000

=$17.05 Per hour

Substituting in either the high or low volume cost

High. Low

Total cost. 1,274,000. 899,000

Variable cost. 1,159,400. 784,300

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Fixed cost. 114,600. 114,700

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(C) Estimated cost of 56,000 machine hours of output

Total overhead / Total machine hour

Total overhead = machine supplies + property taxes + plant maintenance

= 179,000 + 25,700 + 1,250,000

= 1,454,700

= 1,454,700/ 56,000

= 25.976

= $25.98 per hour

Working of variable cost

68,000 × 17.05 = 1,159,400

46,000 × 17.05 = 784,300