Question

Sheffield's Bakery makes a variety of home-style cookies for upscale restaurants in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The company's best-selling cookie is the double chocolate almond supreme. Sheffield's recipe requires 10 ounces of a commercial cookie mix, 5 ounces of milk chocolate, and 1 ounce of almonds per pound of cookies. The standard direct materials costs are $0.80 per pound of cookie mix, $4 per pound of milk chocolate, and $19 per pound of almonds. Each pound of cookies requires 1 minute of direct labor in the mixing department and 5 minutes of direct labor in the baking department. The standard labor rates in those departments are $12.70 per direct labor hour (DLH) and $27 per DLH, respectively. Variable overhead is applied at a rate of $37.00 per DLH; fixed overhead is applied at a rate of $60 per DLH.
Required:
1. Calculate the standard cost for a pound of Sheffield's double chocolate almond supreme cookies. (Round answer to 2 decimal places, e.g. 3.51.)

Answer 1

Answer:

The Standard cost for a pound  of Sheffield's double chocolate almond supreme cookies is $15.10

Explanation:

The standard direct materials costs are $0.80 per pound of cookie mix, $4 per pound of milk chocolate, and $19 per pound of almonds.

Total ounces = 10 + 5 + 1  = 16

Standard Material Cost = ($\frac{10}{16}$ × 0.80) + ($\frac{5}{16}$ × 4) + ($\frac{1}{16}$ × 19)

Standard Material Cost = $ 2.9375

Each pound of cookies requires 1 minute of direct labor in the mixing department and 5 minutes of direct labor in the baking department.

Standard Direct Labor Cost = $\frac{1}{60}$ × 12.70 + $\frac{5}{60}$ × 27

Standard Direct Labor Cost = $2.4617

Variable overhead is applied at a rate of $37.00 per direct labor hour

Standard Variable overhead cost = 6/60 × 37

Standard Variable overhead cost = $ 3.70

Standard Fixed overhead cost = 6/60 × 60

Standard Fixed overhead cost = $ 6

Standard cost for a pound = $2.9375 + $2.4617 + $3.70 + $6

Standard cost for a pound = $15.10