In: Accounting
Wellington Chocolate Company uses activity-based costing. The controller identified two activities and budgeted overhead costs based on these activities:
Setting up equipment $280,000
Baking $5,800,000
Setting up equipment is based on setup hours, and baking is based on oven hours. Wellington produces two products, fudge, and cookies. Information on each product is as follows
fudge | cookies | |
Units produced | 8,000 | 445,000 |
Setup hours | 4,000 | 1,000 |
Oven hours | 5,000 | 35,000 |
Required (round your answers to the nearest whole dollar, unless otherwise directed):
1. Calculate the activity rate for setting up equipment
2. Calculate the activity rate for baking
3. How much total overhead is assigned to Fudge?
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Part 1 and 2 | ||||
Activity | Overhead cost | Total Activities | Activity Rate | |
a | b | a/b | ||
Setting up | $ 280,000 | 5,000 | $ 56 | |
Baking | $ 5,800,000 | 40,000 | $ 145 | |
Part 3 | ||||
Activity rate | Activities | Overhead assigned | ||
a | b | a*b | ||
Settin up | $ 56 | 4,000 | $ 224,000 | |
Bakint | $ 145 | 5,000 | $ 725,000 | |
Overhead is assigned to fudge | $ 949,000 | |||