Account Analysis, Two Stage Allocation, and Product Costing
Tiger Furnishings’s CFO believes that a two stage cost allocation system would give managers better cost information. She asks the company’s cost accountant to analyze the accounts and assign overhead costs to two pools: overhead related to direct labor cost and overhead related to machine hours.
The analysis of overhead accounts by the cost accountant follows:
Manufacturing Overhead |
Overhead Estimate |
Cost Pool Assignment |
Utilities |
$ 1,800 |
Machine hour related |
Supplies |
5,000 |
Direct labor cost related |
Training |
10,000 |
Direct labor cost related |
Supervision |
25,800 |
Direct labor cost related |
Machine depreciation |
32,000 |
Machine hour related |
Plant depreciation |
14,200 |
Machine hour related |
Miscellaneous |
85,300 |
Direct labor cost related |
Required
a. Draw the cost flow diagram that illustrates the two stage cost allocation of overhead for Tiger Furnishings using the results of the cost accountant’s analysis of accounts.
b. Compute the product costs per unit assuming that Tiger Furnishings uses direct labor costs and machine hours to allocate overhead to the products.