FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
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ISBN: 9781259964947
Author: Libby
Publisher: MCG
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Lucky Lager has just purchased the Austin Brewery. The brewery is two years old and uses absorption costing. It will “sell” its products to Lucky Lager at $45 per barrel. Paul Brandon, Lucky Lager’s controller, obtains the following information about Austin Brewery’s capacity and budgeted fixed manufacturing costs for 2012:

 

Denominator-Level Capacity Concept

Budgeted Fixed MOH per period

Days of Production per period

Hours of production per day

Barrels per hour

Theoretical capacity

$28,000,000

360

24

540

Practical capacity

$28,000,000

350

20

500

Normal capacity utilization

$28,000,000

350

20

400

Master-Budget capacity for each half year:

a)     January – June 2012

b)    July – December 2012

 

 

$14,000,000

$14,000,000

 

 

175

175

 

 

20

20

 

 

320

480

Required:

  1. Compute the budgeted fixed MOH rate per barrel for each of the denominator-level capacity concepts. Explain why they are different.
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