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Mars Bar Company produces two products, Milky Way and Snickers. The indirect labor costs include the...

Mars Bar Company produces two products, Milky Way and Snickers. The indirect labor costs include the following two items:

Plant supervision

$   700,000

Setup labor (indirect)

     300,000

Total indirect labor

$1,000,000

The following activity-base usage and unit production information is available for the two products:

Number of
Setups

Direct Labor
Hours

Units

Product Milky Way

200

20,000

900

Product Snickers

200

30,000

1,100

  Totals

400

50,000

2,000

a.

Determine the single plantwide factory overhead rate, using direct labor hours as the activity base.

$

b.

Determine the factory overhead allocated per unit for Products Milky Way and Snickers, using the single plantwide factory overhead rate.  (round to two decimal places)

Milky Way $

Snickers $

c.

Determine the activity rate for plant supervision and setup labor, assuming that the activity base for supervision is direct labor hours and the activity base for setup labor is number of setups.

Setup Activity Rate $  per setup

Supervision Activity Rate $  per dlh

d.

Determine the factory overhead allocated per unit for Products T and U, using the activity-based costing method.  (Round your answers to two decimal places)

Milky Way $

Snickers $

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