Question

Sequential Method

Jasmine Company manufactures both pesticide and liquid fertilizer, with each product manufactured in separate departments. Three support departments support the production departments: Power, General Factory, and Purchasing. Budgeted data on the five departments are as follows:

	Support Departments		Producing Departments
	Power	General Factory	Purchasing	Pesticide	Liquid Fertilizer
Overhead	$90,000	$316,000	$169,000	$78,800	$107,400
Square feet	1,500	—	1,500	4,200	4,800
Machine hours	—	1,403	1,345	24,000	8,000
Purchase orders	20	40	—	120	60

The company does not break overhead into fixed and variable components. The bases for allocation are power—machine hours; general factory—square feet; and purchasing—purchase orders.

The company has decided to use the sequential method of allocation instead of the direct method. The support departments are ranked in order of highest cost to lowest cost.

Required:

1. Allocate the overhead costs to the producing departments using the sequential method. Carry out allocation ratios to four decimal places. Use these numbers for subsequent calculations. Round allocated costs to the nearest dollar. If an amount is zero, enter "0".

Allocation ratios:

	Power	General Factory	Purchasing	Pesticide	Liquid Fertilizer
Square feet
Machine hours
Purchase orders

Cost allocation:

	Power	General Factory	Purchasing	Pesticide	Liquid Fertilizer
Direct costs	$	$	$	$	$
General Factory
Purchasing
Power
Total	$	$	$	$	$

2. Using machine hours, compute departmental overhead rates. (Round the overhead rates to the nearest cent.)

	Overhead Rates
Pesticide	$ per machine hour
Liquid Fertilizer	$ per machine hour

Answer 1

1. In direct method cost of supporting department will be allocated directly to operating department based on the number of activity.

Allocation of power based on machine hour

Pesticides = $80000 * 24000 / 32000 = $60000

Liquid fertilizer = $80000*8000/32000 = $20000

Allocation of general factory

Pesticides =$314000*4200/9000 = $146533

Liquid fertilizer = $314000*4800/9000 = $167467

Allocation of purchasing

Pesticides = $169000*120/180 =$112667

Liquid fertilizer = $169000*60/180 =$56333

Calculation of total cost

Particular	pesticides	fertilizer
Direct costs	$78800	$107400
Power	$60000	$20000
General factory	$146533	$167467
Purchasing	$112667	$56333
Total	$398000	$351200

2. Calculation of department overhead cost

Particulars	pesticides	fertilizer
Total cost	$398000	$351200
Machine hours	24000	8000
Overhead per machine hour	$16.5833	$43.90

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