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Utease Corporation has many production plants across the midwestern United States. A newly opened plant, the...

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?

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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

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