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tubist
Oct 30, 2015, 10:11 AM
Please help me for this question; I cannot figure it out; I feel veryy confued about it
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Perdon Corporation manufactures safes—large mobile safes, and large walk-in stationary bank safes. As part of its annual budgeting process, Perdon is analyzing the profitability of its two products. Part of this analysis involves estimating the amount of overhead to be allocated to each product line. The information shown below relates to overhead.





Mobile Safes


Walk-in Safes



Units planned for production

210

48


Material moves per product line

290

240


Purchase orders per product line

460

360


Direct labor hours per product line

810

1,710



The total estimated manufacturing overhead was $260,000. Under traditional costing (which assigns overhead on the basis of direct labor hours), what amount of manufacturing overhead costs are assigned to: (Round answers to 2 decimal places, e.g. 12.25.)


(1)

One mobile safe

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per unit


(2)

One walk-in safe

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per unit

Curlyben
Oct 30, 2015, 10:11 AM
What do YOU think ?
While we're happy to HELP we wont do all the work for you.
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tubist
Oct 30, 2015, 10:21 AM
Actually I am confused about the traditional method, Prof did not talk about very much.
However, I think that I have to do that total estimated manufacturing overhead $260,000 is divided by 2520 (810+1710) so 103.17.


What do YOU think ?
While we're happy to HELP we wont do all the work for you.
Show us what you have done and where you are having problems..

Actually I am confused about the traditional method, Prof did not talk about very much.
However, I think that I have to do that total estimated manufacturing overhead $260,000 is divided by 2520 (810+1710) so 103.17