Question

Rocket Products manufactures three types of remote-control devices: Economy, Standard, and Deluxe. The company, which uses activity-based costing, has identified five activities (and related cost drivers). Each activity, its budgeted cost, and related cost driver is identified below. Activity Cost Cost Driver Material handling $ 225,000 Number of parts Material insertion 2,475,000 Number of parts Automated machinery 840,000 Machine hours Finishing 170,000 Direct labor hours Packaging 170,000 Orders shipped Total $ 3,880,000 The following information pertains to the three product lines for next year: Economy Standard Deluxe Units to be produced 10,000 5,000 2,000 Orders to be shipped 1,000 500 200 Number of parts per unit 10 15 25 Machine hours per unit 1 3 5 Labor hours per unit 2 2 2 Assume that Rocket is using a volume-based costing system, and the preceding overhead costs are applied to all products on the basis of direct labor hours. The overhead cost that would be assigned to the Standard product line is closest to:

Answer 1

Answer:

See calculation below

Explanation:

With regards to the above information, overhead cost assigned to the Standard product line

= Total overhead × Units produced for standard product line / Total units produced

= 3,880,000 × 5,000 / $1,000 + $5,000 + 7,000

= $1,492,307