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Calculate the overhead rate per unit for Product A in the painting department of Adirondack Marketing Inc.

A) $236.32 per unit
B) $325.00 per unit
C) $147.70 per unit
D) $161.00 per unit

E) A) and D)
F) All of the above

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The Anazi Leather Company manufactures leather handbags and moccasins.The company has been using the factory overhead rate method but has decided to evaluate the multiple production department factory overhead rate to allocate factory overhead.The factory overhead estimated per unit together with direct materials and direct labor will help determine selling prices. Handbags = 60,000 units, 3 hours of direct labor Moccasins= 40,000 units, 2 hours of direct labor Total budgeted factory overhead cost = $360,000 The company has two different production departments: Cutting and Sewing.The Cutting Department has a factory overhead budget of $80,000.Each unit will require 1 direct labor hour or a total of 100,000 direct labor hours. The Sewing Department estimates factory overhead in the amount of $280,000.Handbags require 2 hours of sewing time and Moccasins require 1 hour for a total of 160,000 labor hours. Calculate the total factory overhead to be allocated to each product using direct labor hours.

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Service companies can effectively use multiple department overhead rate costing to compute product service costs.

Activity rates are computed by dividing the cost budgeted for each activity pool by the estimated activity base for that pool.

What is the Fabrication Department overhead rate per machine hour?

Determine the overhead rate in the Finishing Department for each unit of Product A if Blue Ridge Marketing Inc.uses a multiple department rate system.

Determine the activity rate for product development per change.

Activity-based costing can be used to allocate period costs to various products that the company sells.

Which of the following is a cost pool used with the activity-based costing method?

Explain why it is imperative that proper factory overhead be allocated in factories that produce multiple products.

What is the overhead cost per unit for Dings?

If the budgeted factory overhead cost is $460,000, the budgeted direct labor hours is 80,000, and the actual direct labor hours is 6,700 for the month, the factory overhead rate for the month is $68.65 if the allocation is based on direct labor hours.

What is the overhead cost per unit for Rings?

Use of a plantwide factory overhead rate distorts product costs when there are differences in the factory overhead rates across different production departments and when products require different ratios of allocation-base usage in each production department.

Estimated activity-base usage quantities are the total activity-base quantities related to each product.

Shanghai Company sells glasses, fine china, and everyday dinnerware.They use activity-based costing to determine the cost of the shipping and handling activity.The shipping and handling activity has an activity rate of $14 per pound.A box of glasses weighs 2 lbs., the box of china weighs 4 lbs., and a box of everyday dinnerware weighs 6 lbs.a Determine the shipping and handling activity for each product and b determine the total shipping and receiving costs for the china if 3,500 boxes are shipped.

The Klamath Corp.produces two products, saws and drills.Three activities are used in their manufacture.These activities and their associated costs and bases are as follows: a Determine the activity rate for each activity. b Determine the overhead cost per unit for each product.

The Ramapo Company uses a single overhead rate to apply all overhead costs.What would the single plantwide rate be if it was based on machine hours instead of labor hours?

Product costing consists of only direct materials and direct labor.

Using a plantwide factory overhead rate distorts product costs when: