Comprehensive Problem $6($Algo$)$

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Utease Corporation has several production plants nationwide. A newly opened plant in Dubuque produces and sells one product. The plant is treated, for responsibility accounting purposes, as a profit center. The unit standard costs for a production unit, with overhead applied based on direct labor hours, are as follows.

Manufacturing costs $($per unit based on expected activity of $17,000$ units or $18,700$ direct labor hours$)$:

Direct materials $(1\mathrm{.}8$ pounds at $$10)$ $ $18\mathrm{.}00$

Direct labor $(1\mathrm{.}1$ hours at $$60)66\mathrm{.}00$

Variable overhead $(1\mathrm{.}1$ hours at $$10)11\mathrm{.}00$

Fixed overhead $(1\mathrm{.}1$ hours at $$20)22\mathrm{.}00$

Standard cost per unit $ $117\mathrm{.}00$

Budgeted selling and administrative costs:

Variable $ $4$ per unit

Fixed $ $1,500,000$

Expected sales activity: $13,000$ units at $$350$ per unit

Desired ending inventories: $12\%$ of sales

Assume this is the first year of operations for the Dubuque plant. During the year, the company had the following activity.

Units produced $16,000$

Units sold $14,500$

Unit selling price $ $345$

Direct labor hours worked $17,100$

Direct labor costs $ $1,043,100$

Direct materials purchased $32,800$ pounds

Direct materials costs $ $328,000$

Direct materials used $32,800$ pounds

Actual fixed overhead $ $1,000,000$

Actual variable overhead $ $87,000$

Actual selling and administrative costs $ $1,652,000$

In addition, all over$-$ or underapplied overhead and all product cost variances are adjusted to cost of goods sold.

Comprehensive Problem $6($Algo$)$ Part h

h$.$ Assume Utease Corporation is planning to change its evaluation of business operations in all plants from the profit center format to the investment center format. If the average invested capital at the Dubuque plant is $$9,070,000,$ compute the return on investment $($ROI$)$ for the first year of operations. Use the DuPont method of evaluation to compute the return on sales $($ROS$)$ and capital turnover $($CT$)$ for the plant. $($Round your percentage answers to $2$ decimal places $($i$.$e$.,0\mathrm{.}1234$ should be considered as $12\mathrm{.}34.))$