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:
i. Assume that under the investment center evaluation plan the plant manager will be awarded a bonus based on ROI. If the manager has the opportunity in the coming year to invest in new equipment for $600,000 that will generate incremental earnings of $75,000 per year, would the manager undertake the project?
actual units produced: 22000 | |||||
actual direct labour hours: 54500 | |||||
actual units sold: 20500 | |||||
standard (in $) | actual (in $) | ||||
direct material cost | |||||
60*22000 | 1320000 | ||||
1400000 | |||||
direct labour cost | |||||
225*22000 | 4950000 | ||||
4959500 | |||||
Variable Overheads | |||||
75*22000 | 1650000 | ||||
1625000 | 25000 | under absorption | |||
Fixed Overheads | |||||
100*23000 | 2300000 | ||||
1200000 | 1100000 | under absorption | |||
Cost of Goods Manufactured | 10220000 | 9184500 | |||
Closing Stock | |||||
10220000/22000*1500 | 696818 | 626216 | |||
Cost of Goods Sold | 9523182 | 8558284 | |||
Add Selling Expenses | |||||
Variable Selling & Adm. Overheads | |||||
10*19000 | 190000 | ||||
Fixed Selling & Adm. Overheads | 1400000 | ||||
2590000 | -1190000 | over absorption | |||
Total Cost of Sales | 11113182 | 11148284 | -65000 | net over absorption | |
less Over absorption of overheads | 65000 | ||||
Cost of sales | 11113182 | 11083284 |