Munoz Sporting Equipment manufactures baseball bats and tennis rackets. Department B produces the baseball bats, and Department T produces the tennis rackets. Munoz currently uses plant-wide allocation to allocate its overhead to all products. Direct labor cost is the allocation base. The rate used is 150 percent of the direct labor cost. Last year, revenue, materials, and direct labor were as follows:
Required:
a. Compute the profit for each product using plant-wide allocation.
b. Maria, the manager of Department T, was convinced that tennis rackets were really more profitable than baseball bats. She asked her colleague in accounting to break down the overhead costs for the two departments. She discovered that department rates been used, Department B would have had a rate of 100 percent of the direct labor cost and Department T would have had a rate of 250 percent of the direct labor cost. Re-compute the profits for each product using each department s allocation rate (based on the direct labor cost).

a.

Baseball Bats Profit = $110,000

Tennis Racket Profit = $429,000

b.

Baseball Bats were more profitable; so, Maria was wrong

Baseball Bats Profit = $300,000

Tennis Racket Profit = $239,000

Explanation:

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a.

Calculating Profit (Baseball Bat)

Profit = Revenue - (Direct Labour + Direct Material + Overhead)

Revenue = $1,630,000

Direct Labour = $380,000

Direct Material = $570,000

Overhead Cost = 150% * Direct Labour

Overhead Cost = 1.5 * $380,000

Overhead Cost = $570,000

So, Profit = $1,630,000 - ($380,000 + $570,000 + $570,000)

Profit = $1,630,000 - $1,520,000

Profit = $110,000

Calculating Profit (Tennis Racket)

Profit = Revenue - (Direct Labour + Direct Material + Overhead)

Revenue = $1,200,000

Direct Labour = $190,000

Direct Material = $296,000

Overhead Cost = 150% * Direct Labour

Overhead Cost = 1.5 * $190,000

Overhead Cost = $285,000

So, Profit = $1,200,000 - ($190,000 + $296,000 + $285,00)

Profit = $1,200,000 - $771,000

Profit = $429,000

b. Baseball Bats were more profitable; so, Maria was wrong.

Calculating Profit (Baseball Bat)

Profit = Revenue - (Direct Labour + Direct Material + Overhead)

Revenue = $1,630,000

Direct Labour = $380,000

Direct Material = $570,000

Overhead Cost = 100% * Direct Labour

Overhead Cost = 1 * $380,000

Overhead Cost = $380,000

So, Profit = $1,630,000 - ($380,000 + $570,000 + $380,000)

Profit = $1,630,000 - $1,330,000

Profit = $300,000

Calculating Profit (Tennis Racket)

Profit = Revenue - (Direct Labour + Direct Material + Overhead)

Revenue = $1,200,000

Direct Labour = $190,000

Direct Material = $296,000

Overhead Cost = 250% * Direct Labour

Overhead Cost = 2.5 * $190,000

Overhead Cost = $475,000

So, Profit = $1,200,000 - ($190,000 + $296,000 + $475,00)

Profit = $1,200,000 - $961,000

Profit = $239,000

1   all nations face the problem of scarcity because there are limited resources and unlimited wants. nations do not have enough factors of production to produce everything that their population wants. entrepreneurial resources initiate businesses to make new goods and services; labor resources produce goods and services.

2 there are four factors of production: natural resources, labor resources, capital resources, and entrepreneurial resources. natural resources are raw materials from nature that are used to produce goods. trees, water, and grains are natural resources. some natural resources, such as wheat and cattle, are renewable

3 wants

things that you do not need to have in order to survive, but would like to have

needs

things that you must have in order to survive

goods

physical products

services

tasks that a business perform for customers

resources

items that people can use to make or obtain what they need or want

determine

to settle or decide by choice of alternatives or possiblities

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