Stewart Marketing Inc. manufactures two products, A and B. Presently, the company uses a single plant-wide factory overhead rate for allocating overhead to products. However, management is considering moving to a multiple department rate system for allocating overhead. From the following information, determine the overhead from both production departments allocated to each unit of Product B if the company uses a multiple department rate system.
| Overhead | Direct Labor Hours (dlh) | Product |
A | B |
Painting Dept. | $248,000 | 10,000 dlh | 16 dlh | 4 dlh |
Finishing Dept. | 72,000 | 10,000 | 4 | 16 |
Totals | $320,000 | 20,000 dlh | 20 dlh | 20 dlh |
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Phelan Systems Corporation is estimating activity costs associated with producing disk drives, tapes drives, and wire drives. The indirect labor can be traced to four separate activity pools. The budgeted activity cost and activity base information, along with the estimated activity-base information, is provided below.
| Activity Cost | Activity Base |
Procurement | $ 360,000 | Number of purchase orders |
Scheduling | 240,000 | Number of production orders |
Materials handling | 480,000 | Number of moves |
Product development | 720,000 | Number of engineering changes |
Production | 1,420,000 | Machine hours |
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| Number of Purchase Orders | Number of Production Orders | Number of Moves | Number of Engineering Changes | Machine Hours | Number of Units |
Disk drives | 4,000 | 300 | 1,400 | 10 | 2,000 | 2,000 |
Tape drives | 2,000 | 150 | 600 | 5 | 8,000 | 4,000 |
Wire drives | 12,000 | 800 | 4,000 | 25 | 10,000 | 2,500 |
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Determine the activity rate for product development per change.