Question

Benitez Company makes wicker and wooden slat picnic baskets. It requires approximately 1 hour of labor to make one basket of either type. Wicker baskets are produced in batches of 100 units and require 0.5 machine hours per basket. Wooden slat baskets are produced in batches of 50 units and require 0.75 machine hours per basket. Setup is required for each batch. During the most recent accounting period, the company made 8,000 wicker baskets and 2,000 wooden slat baskets. Setup costs amounted to $24,000 for the baskets produced during the period. If activity-based costing is used to allocate overhead costs to the two products, the amount of setup cost assigned to the wicker baskets will be:

Answer 1

Answer:

Assigned cost= $16,080

Explanation:

Giving the following information:

Wicker baskets are produced in batches of 100 units.

Wooden slat baskets are produced in batches of 50.

Setup is required for each batch. During the most recent accounting period, the company made 8,000 wicker baskets and 2,000 wooden slat baskets. Setup costs amounted to $24,000 for the baskets produced during the period.

First, we need to determine the number of batches.

Wicker= 8000/100= 80 batches

Wooden= 2000/50= 40 batches

Proportion of batches= 80/120= 0.67

Assigned cost= 24000*0.67= $16,080