Question

Red Raider Company uses a plantwide overhead rate with direct labor hours as the allocation base. Next year, 560,000 units are expected to be produced requiring 0.90 direct-labor hours each. How much overhead will be assigned to each unit produced given the following estimated amounts?

Estimated: Department 1 Department 2
Manufacturing overhead costs   $2,530,000  $900,000
Direct labor hours 168,000 DLH 110,000 DLH
Machine hours 30,000 MH   8,000 MH

a. $12.34 per unit
b. $63.95 per unit
c. $7.32 per unit
d. $11.11 per unit
e. $15.06 per unit

Answer 1

d. $11.11 per unit

Step-by-step explanation:

Plant wide overhead rate = Total manufacturing cotsts / Total direct labor hours

Plant wide overhead rate = ($2,530,000 + $900,000) / (168,000+110,000)

Plant wide overhead rate = $3,430,000 / 278,000

Plant wide overhead rate = $12.34 per DLH

Overhead cost per unit = Plant wide overhead rate * Direct hours per unit

Overhead cost per unit = $12.34 * 0.90

Overhead cost per unit = $11.11 per unit