Calculate the actual plant operating profit/loss for the year.
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.
Direct materials (2.5 pounds at $18) | $ | 45.00 | ||
Direct labor (1.7 hours at $70) | 119.00 | |||
Variable overhead (1.7 hours at $20) | 34.00 | |||
Fixed overhead (1.7 hours at $30) | 51.00 | |||
$ | 249.00 | |||
Budgeted selling and administrative costs: | ||||
Variable | $ | 8 | per unit | |
Fixed | $ | 1,600,000 | ||
Expected sales activity: 27,000 units at $380 per unit
Desired ending inventories: 18% 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 | 30,000 | |||
Units sold | 28,500 | |||
Unit selling price | $ | 375 | ||
Direct labor hours worked | 50,500 | |||
Direct labor costs | $ | 3,585,500 | ||
Direct materials purchased | 79,000 | pounds | ||
Direct materials costs | $ | 1,422,000 | ||
Direct materials used | 79,000 | pounds | ||
Actual fixed overhead | $ | 1,300,000 | ||
Actual variable overhead | $ | 954,000 | ||
Actual selling and administrative costs | $ | 1,916,000 | ||
In addition, all over- or underapplied overhead and all product cost variances are adjusted to cost of goods sold.
f. Calculate the actual plant operating
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