In: Accounting
Sara’s Salsa Company produces its condiments in two types: Extra
Fine for restaurant customers and Family Style for home use. Salsa
is prepared in department 1 and packaged in department 2. The
activities, overhead costs, and drivers associated with these two
manufacturing processes and the company’s production support
activities follow.
Process | Activity | Overhead cost | Driver | Quantity | ||
Department 1 | Mixing | $ | 5,800 | Machine hours | 2,200 | |
Cooking | 12,900 | Machine hours | 2,200 | |||
Product testing | 113,800 | Batches | 1,000 | |||
$ | 132,500 | |||||
Department 2 | Machine calibration | $ | 315,000 | Production runs | 500 | |
Labeling | 20,000 | Cases of output | 145,000 | |||
Defects | 9,000 | Cases of output | 145,000 | |||
$ | 344,000 | |||||
Support | Recipe formulation | $ | 82,000 | Focus groups | 40 | |
Heat, lights, and water | 33,000 | Machine hours | 2,200 | |||
Materials handling | 78,000 | Container types | 8 | |||
$ | 193,000 | |||||
Additional production information about its two product lines
follows.
Extra Fine | Family Style | |||
Units produced | 33,000 | cases | 112,000 | cases |
Batches | 330 | batches | 670 | batches |
Machine hours | 900 | MH | 1,300 | MH |
Focus groups | 30 | groups | 10 | groups |
Container types | 6 | containers | 2 | containers |
Production runs | 240 | runs | 260 | runs |
5. If the market price is $18 per case of Extra
Fine and $12 per case of Family Style, determine the gross profit
per case for each product. (Round your intermediate
calculations and final answers to 2 decimal
places.)