Unit-based product costing assigns direct labor, direct materials, and overhead to products. Direct materials and direct labor are assigned using direct tracing. Assignment of overhead costs, however, relies on driver tracing and perhaps allocation. Unit-based costing first assigns overhead costs to a functional unit, creating plant or departmental cost pools. Next these pooled costs are assigned to products using predetermined overhead rates based on unit-level drivers. Unit-level drivers measure the demands placed on ........?.......Unit-level activities are those that are performed each and every time:......?........ . From the dropdown below, select all unit-level drivers:.........?........... Goodmark Company produces two products: scented and regular birthday cards. Goodmark uses a plantwide rate based on direct labor hours. The estimated and actual data for the coming year are provided below: estimated overhead      $720,000 Expected activity(direct labor hours) 180,000 actual activity(direct labor hours)   Scented cards   20000   regualr cards   160000 Units produced    Scented cards   20000    regular cards    200000 Required: 1. Calculate the following: a. The predetermined overhead plantwide rate (round to the nearest cent): $ per direct labor hour b. Applied overhead for each product (round to the nearest dollar):   Scented: $ Regular: $ c. Overhead per unit for each product (round to the nearest cent):   Scented: $ Regular: $

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Unit-based product costing assigns direct labor, direct materials, and overhead to products. Direct materials and direct labor are assigned using direct tracing. Assignment of overhead costs, however, relies on driver tracing and perhaps allocation. Unit-based costing first assigns overhead costs to a functional unit, creating plant or departmental cost pools. Next these pooled costs are assigned to products using predetermined overhead rates based on unit-level drivers. Unit-level drivers measure the demands placed on ........?.......Unit-level activities are those that are performed each and every time:......?........

. From the dropdown below, select all unit-level drivers:.........?...........

Goodmark Company produces two products: scented and regular birthday cards. Goodmark uses a plantwide rate based on direct labor hours. The estimated and actual data for the coming year are provided below:

estimated overhead      $720,000

Expected activity(direct labor hours) 180,000

actual activity(direct labor hours)

  Scented cards   20000

  regualr cards   160000

Units produced

   Scented cards   20000

   regular cards    200000

Required:

1.

Calculate the following:

a.

The predetermined overhead plantwide rate (round to the nearest cent): $

per direct labor hour

b.

Applied overhead for each product (round to the nearest dollar):

 

Scented:

$

Regular:

$

c.

Overhead per unit for each product (round to the nearest cent):

 

Scented:

$

Regular:

$

 

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