Roasting $__________ roasting per hour Seasoning $__________ Seasoning per hour Packaging $__________ Packaging per hour
Sheffield’s Nut House is a processor and distributor of a variety of different nuts. The company buys nuts from around the world and roasts, seasons, and packages them for resale. Sheffield’s Nut House currently offers 15 different types of nuts in one-pound bags through catalogs and gourmet shops. The company’s major cost is that of the raw nuts; however, the predominantly automated roasting and packing processes consume a substantial amount of
Some of Sheffield’s nuts are very popular and sell in large volumes, but some of the newer types sell in very low volumes. Sheffield’s prices its nuts at cost (including overhead) plus a markup of 50%. If the resulting prices of certain nuts are significantly higher than the market price, adjustments are made. Although the company competes primarily on the quality of its products, customers are price conscious.
Data for the annual budget include manufacturing overhead of $ 8,763,000, allocated on the basis of each product’s direct labor cost. The annual budgeted direct labor cost totals $ 1,752,600. Based on the sales budget and raw materials standards, purchases and use of raw materials are expected to total $ 9,000,000 for the year.
The unit raw material and direct labor costs of a one-pound bag of two of the company’s products follows.
Question:
Roasting $__________ roasting per hour
Seasoning $__________ Seasoning per hour
Packaging $__________ Packaging per hour
![Data regarding the annual production of cashews and chestnuts follow. There will be no Raw Materials Inventory for either type of
nuts at the beginning of the year.
Cashews
Chestnuts
Expected sales
100,000 Ibs.
5,000 Ibs.
Batch size
10,000 lbs.
500 Ibs.
Setups
3 per batch
4 per batch
Purchase order size
2,000 lbs.
2,500 Ibs.
Roasting time
1 hour/ 100 lbs.
2 hour/ 100 Ibs.
Seasoning time
0.50 hour/ 100 Ibs.
0.50 hour/ 100 Ibs.
Packaging time
0.10 hour/ 100 Ibs.
0.10 hour/ 100 Ibs.](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F8ad87420-52d2-4e34-815e-eb9bcb5c95c0%2F800b3fa9-6764-476f-abf1-9ecbc5928fa6%2Fsemsvg8_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
![Cashews
Chestnuts
Raw materials
$ 4.50
$ 3.20
Direct labor
0.30
0.30
Sheffield's controller believes that the traditional costing system may be providing misleading cost information, so she has developed
the following analysis of the annual budgeted manufacturing costs.
Budgeted
Activity
Activity
Cost Driver
Budgeted Cost
Purchasing
Purchase orders
11,460
$ 2,292,000
Material handling
Number of setups
1,800
1,440,000
Quality control
Number of batches
600
360,000
Roasting
Roasting hours
96,100
2,883,000
Seasoning
Seasoning hours
33,600
1,008,000
Packaging
Packaging hours
26,000
780,000
Total manufacturing overhead cost
$8,763,000](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F8ad87420-52d2-4e34-815e-eb9bcb5c95c0%2F800b3fa9-6764-476f-abf1-9ecbc5928fa6%2F0w6dtbp_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
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Activity rate = Budgeted cost/Budgeted Activity
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