Seco, Inc., produces two types of clothes dryers: deluxe and regular. Seco uses a plantwide rate based on direct labour hours to assign its overhead costs. The company has the following estimated and actual data for the coming year:   Estimated overhead $2,000,000 Expected activity 50,000 Actual activity (direct labour hours):   Deluxe dryer 10,000 Regular dryer 40,000 Units produced:   Deluxe dryer 20,000 Regular dryer 200,000   Required: Calculate the predetermined plantwide overhead rate and the applied overhead for eachproduct, using direct labour hours. Calculate the overhead cost per unit for each product. What if the deluxe product used 20,000 hours (to produce 20,000 units) instead of 10,000hours (total expected hours remain the same)? Calculate the effect on the profitability of thisproduct line if all 20,000 units are sold, and then discuss the implications of this outcome.

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Seco, Inc., produces two types of clothes dryers: deluxe and regular. Seco uses a plantwide rate based on direct labour hours to assign its overhead costs. The company has the following estimated and actual data for the coming year:

 

Estimated overhead

$2,000,000

Expected activity

50,000

Actual activity (direct labour hours):

 

Deluxe dryer

10,000

Regular dryer

40,000

Units produced:

 

Deluxe dryer

20,000

Regular dryer

200,000

 

Required:

  1. Calculate the predetermined plantwide overhead rate and the applied overhead for eachproduct, using direct labour hours.
  2. Calculate the overhead cost per unit for each product.
  3. What if the deluxe product used 20,000 hours (to produce 20,000 units) instead of 10,000hours (total expected hours remain the same)? Calculate the effect on the profitability of thisproduct line if all 20,000 units are sold, and then discuss the implications of this outcome.

 

 

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