Question

Sweeten Company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of March and no beginning inventories. The company has two manufacturing departments—Molding and Fabrication. It started, completed, and sold only two jobs during March—Job P and Job Q. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Jobs P and Q (all data and questions relate to the month of March):

	Molding			Fabrication			Total
Estimated total machine-hours used		2,500			1,500			4,000
Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead	$	10,000		$	15,000		$	25,000
Estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour	$	1.40		$	2.20

	Job P			Job Q
Direct materials	$	13,000		$	8,000
Direct labor cost	$	21,000		$	7,500
Actual machine-hours used:
Molding		1,700			800
Fabrication		600			900
Total		2,300			1,700

Sweeten Company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month.

Required:

For questions 1-8, assume that Sweeten Company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with machine-hours as the allocation base. For questions 9-15, assume that the company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine-hours as the allocation base in both departments.

Foundational 2-6

If Job Q included 30 units, what was its unit product cost? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your final answer to nearest whole dollar.)

Unit product cost _________________

Answer 1

			Molding	Fabrication
	Estimated Variable overhead rate per machine hour	=	$                  1.40	$           2.20
	Estimated Fixed overhead rate per machine hour	=	$                  4.00	$        10.00
	Predetermined overhead cost	=	$                  5.40	$        12.20
			Job Q
	Direct material	=	$                8,000
	Direct labor	=	$                7,500
	Overhead applied:
	Molding (800 X $5.40)	=	$                4,320
	Fabrication (900 X $12.20)	=	$             10,980
(i)	Total cost	=	$             30,800
(ii)	Units produced	=	30
(i) / (ii)	Cost per unit	=	$                1,027