Question

Crane, Inc. a manufacturer of gourmet potato chips, employs activity-based costing. The budgeted data for each of the activity cost pools is provided below for the year 2020.

Activity Cost Pools Estimated Overhead Estimated Use of Cost Drivers per Activity
Ordering and receiving $117,600 16,000 orders
Food processing 530,625 62,500 machine hours
Packaging 1,701,120 443,000 labor hours

For 2020, the company had 11,600 orders and used 50,900 machine hours, and labor hours totaled 490,000.

Required:
Calculate the overhead rates for each activity.

Answer 1

Ordering and receiving = $7.35 per order

Food processing = $8.49 per machine hour

Packaging = $3.84 per labor hour

Step-by-step explanation:

According to the scenario, computation of the given data are as follows,

We can calculate overhead rate by using following formula,

Overhead Rate = Estimated Overhead ÷ Estimated Use of Cost Drivers per Activity

So, by putting the value in the formula, we get

Overhead rate of Ordering and receiving = $117,600 ÷ 16,000 = $7.35 per order

Overhead rate of Food processing = 530,625 ÷ 62,500 = $8.49 per machine hour

Overhead rate of Packaging = 1,701,120 ÷ 443,000 = $3.84 per labor hour