Engineering Products plc produces Product GH1, which incurs costs of d150 for direct materials and £75 for direct labour. The company has estimated its production overhead and direct labour hours for a period as:

Dept A

Dept B

Dept C

Overheads

150,000

200,000

125,000

Direct labour hours

5,000

10,000

5,000

Product GH1 is produced using 10 hours in Dept A, 12 hours in Dept B and 5 hours in Dept C.

Calculate the total cost of each GH1 using:

  • a plant-wide overhead recovery rate; and

cost centre overhead recovery rates.