In: Accounting
Utease Corporation has many production plants across the midwestern United States. A newly opened plant, the Bellingham plant, produces and sells one product. The plant is treated, for responsibility accounting purposes, as a profit center. The unit standard costs for a production unit, with overhead applied based on direct labor hours, are as follows.
Manufacturing costs (per unit based on expected activity of 23,000 units or 57,500 direct labor hours):
Direct materials (3.0 pounds at $20) | $ | 60.00 | ||
Direct labor (2.5 hours at $90) | 225.00 | |||
Variable overhead (2.5 hours at $30) | 75.00 | |||
Fixed overhead (2.5 hours at $40) | 100.00 | |||
Standard cost per unit | $ | 460.00 | ||
Budgeted selling and administrative costs: | ||||
Variable | $ | 10 | per unit | |
Fixed | $ | 1,400,000 | ||
Expected sales activity: 19,000 units at $550 per unit
Desired ending inventories: 14% of sales
Assume this is the first year of operations for the Bellingham plant. During the year, the company had the following activity.
Units produced | 22,000 | |||
Units sold | 20,500 | |||
Unit selling price | $ | 545 | ||
Direct labor hours worked | 54,500 | |||
Direct labor costs | $ | 4,959,500 | ||
Direct materials purchased | 70,000 | pounds | ||
Direct materials costs | $ | 1,400,000 | ||
Direct materials used | 70,000 | pounds | ||
Actual fixed overhead | $ | 1,200,000 | ||
Actual variable overhead | $ | 1,625,000 | ||
Actual selling and administrative costs | $ | 2,590,000 | ||
In addition, all over- or underapplied overhead and all product cost variances are adjusted to cost of goods sold.
Required:
e-1. Find the total over- or underapplied (both fixed and variable) overhead.
e-2. Would cost of goods sold be a larger or smaller expense item after the adjustment for over- or underapplied overhead?
f. Calculate the actual plant operating profit for the year.
Total over /under applied overhead:
Overhead applied
Fixed ( 22,000 units @ 100 per unit ) $ 2,200,000
Variable ( 22,000 units @ 75 per unit ) $ 1,650,000
Total ovehead applied $3,850,000
note: we apply overhead based on actual production taking standard cost
Actual overhead costs given
fixed $1,200,000
Variable 1625,000
Total actual overhead $2,825,000
Overhead overapplied = $3,850,000 - $2,825,000
= $1,025,000
e-2 After the adjustment for the over application , Cost of goods sold will be a smaller expense item