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Sunland Manufacturing produces two products in its Saratoga plant, balzene and galvene. Since it opened its...

Sunland Manufacturing produces two products in its Saratoga plant, balzene and galvene. Since it opened its doors in 1965, Sunland has been using a single manufacturing overhead pool to accumulate overhead costs. Overhead has been allocated to products based on direct labor hours.

Until recently, Sunland was the sole producer of galvene in the country and was therefore able to dictate the selling price. However, last year Marcella Products began marketing a comparable product at $53 per unit—a price that is below Sunland’s product cost. Sunland’s market share of galvene has declined rapidly as a result. The company’s managers must now decide whether to meet the competitive price or discontinue the product. Sunland’s cost accountant has suggested that the company do an activity-based cost analysis before managers make the decision.

The two main indirect costs of manufacturing balzene and galvene are power usage and setup costs. Most of the power usage occurs in the fabricating department; most of the setup costs are incurred in the assembly department. Setup costs are incurred predominantly in the production of balzene. The fabricating department has identified machine hours as the appropriate cost driver; the assembly department has identified setups as the appropriate cost driver. Direct labor rates are the same in both departments.

The combined budget for manufacturing is as follows.

Total

Balzene

Galvene

Number of units

10,000 10,000

Direct labor

$1,080,000 10 hours per unit 20 hours per unit

Direct material

$11.00 per unit $4 per unit

Overhead

   Indirect labor

$50,000

   Fringe benefits

18,000

   Indirect materials

31,000

   Power

180,000

   Setup

90,000

   Quality assurance

25,000

   Other utilities

20,000

   Depreciation

30,000


The cost accountant has prepared the following estimates of overhead usage by the two departments:

Fabricating

Assembly

Indirect labor

75% 25%

Fringe benefits

70% 30%

Indirect materials

$20,000 $11,000

Power

$100,650 $79,350

Setup

$20,000 $70,000

Quality assurance

65% 35%

Other utilities

60% 40%

Depreciation

80% 20%

Activity Base Usage

Machine Hours

Setups

Balzene

4 MH/unit 1,000

Galvene

6 MH/unit 250

Calculate the unit costs of balzene and galvene using the current overhead allocation basis of direct labor hours.

cost per unit for Balzene 61.80 galvene 105.60

Calculate the amount of overhead cost assigned to the Fabricating and Assembly activity cost pools using the cost accountant’s estimates. Determine the overhead rate for each cost pool. (Round overhead rate answers to 3 decimal places, e.g. 15.215.)

OH cost assigned 243000 Fabricating 201000 Assembly

OH rate 2.43/ MH 160.80/setup

C.

Calculate the unit costs of balzene and galvene using activity-based costing. (Round all rates and final answers to 2 decmial places, e.g. 15.25.)

Balzene

Galvene

Cost per unit

Can someone please help me solve for C. please explain.

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