15th Edition

ISBN: 9781337912020

Author: Carl Warren, Ph.d. Cma William B. Tayler

Publisher: South-Western College Pub

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In cost accounting, overhead refers to those expenses which occur during the operating of a business. Overhead includes the fixed, variable, or semi-variable which is not directly involved with a company product or service. It is very important to analyz…

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Chapter 4, Problem 6E

Eclipse Motor Company manufactures two types of specialty electric motors, a commercial motor and a residential motor, through two production departments, Assembly and Testing. Presently, the company uses a single plantwide factory overhead rate for allocating factory overhead to the two products. However, management is considering using the multiple production department factory overhead rate method. The following factory overhead was budgeted for Eclipse:

Chapter 4, Problem 6E, Eclipse Motor Company manufactures two types of specialty electric motors, a commercial motor and a , example 1

Direct machine hours were estimated as follows:

Chapter 4, Problem 6E, Eclipse Motor Company manufactures two types of specialty electric motors, a commercial motor and a , example 2

In addition, the direct machine hours (dmh) used to produce a unit of each product in each department were determined from engineering records, as follows:

Chapter 4, Problem 6E, Eclipse Motor Company manufactures two types of specialty electric motors, a commercial motor and a , example 3

a. Determine the per-unit factory overhead allocated to the commercial and residential motors under the single plantwide factory overhead rate method, using direct machine hours as the allocation base.
b. Determine the per-unit factory overhead allocated to the commercial and residential motors under the multiple production department factory overhead rate method, using direct machine hours as the allocation base for each department.
c. Recommend to management a product costing approach, based on your analyses in (a) and (b). Support your recommendation.

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