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Munoz Sporting Equipment manufactures baseball bats and tennis rackets. Departme

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Question

Munoz Sporting Equipment manufactures baseball bats and tennis rackets. Department B produces the baseball bats, and Department T produces the tennis rackets. Munoz currently uses plantwide allocation to allocate its overhead to all products. Direct labor cost is the allocation base. The rate used is 100 percent of direct labor cost. Last year, revenue, materials, and direct labor were as follows:

Required:

a. Compute the profit for each product using plantwide allocation.

b. Maria, the manager of Department T, was convinced that tennis rackets were really more profitable than baseball bats.She asked her collages in accounting to break down the overhead cost for the two departments.She discovered that had department rates been used, Department B would have had a rate of 50 percent of direct labor cost and Department T would have had a rate of 200 percent of direct labor cost. Recompute the profit for each product using each department's allocation rate (based on direct labor cost).

Baseball Bats Tennis Rackets Sales Revenue $1,540,000 1,000,000 Direct Labor 340,000 170,000 Direct Materials 561,000 283,000

Explanation / Answer

a.

Over head for Baseball Bats = Direct labor x 100 % = $ 340,000 x 1 = $ 340,000

Over head for Tennis Rackets = Direct labor x 100 % = $ 170,000 x 1 = $ 170,000

Baseball Bats

Tennis Rackets

Revenue

$         1,540,000

$           1,000,000

Less: Direct labor

$            340,000

$               170,000

Less: Direct material

$            561,000

$               283,000

Less: Overhead

$            340,000

$               170,000

Profit

$            299,000

$               377,000

b.

Over head for Department B = Direct labor x 50 % = $ 340,000 x 0.5 = $ 170,000

Over head for Department T = Direct labor x 200 % = $ 170,000 x 2 = $ 340,000

Baseball Bats

Tennis Rackets

Revenue

$         1,540,000

$           1,000,000

Less: Direct labor

$            340,000

$               170,000

Less: Direct material

$            561,000

$               283,000

Less: Overhead

$            170,000

$               340,000

Profit

$            469,000

$               207,000

Baseball Bats

Tennis Rackets

Revenue

$         1,540,000

$           1,000,000

Less: Direct labor

$            340,000

$               170,000

Less: Direct material

$            561,000

$               283,000

Less: Overhead

$            340,000

$               170,000

Profit

$            299,000

$               377,000