Evaluate bugaboos plant-wide factory overhead rate

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Question :
Bugaboo Co. manufactures three kinds of cookies: Fluffs, Snaps and Crinkles. The production process is comparatively simple, and factory overhead costs are allocated to products using a particular plant-wide factory rate based on direct labor hours. Information for the month of May 2000, Bugaboo's first month of operations, as given:

Budgeted

Unit Volume Direct Labor

Hours per unit

Fluffs 80,000 boxes 0.10

Crinkles 60,000 boxes 0.20

Snaps 20,000 boxes 1.00

Bugaboo has budgeted direct labor costs for May at $4.50 per hour. Budgeted direct materials costs for May are: Fluffs, $0.85/unit; Snaps $0.30/unit and Crinkles $0.40/unit.

Bugaboo's budgeted overhead costs for May are:

Indirect labor $280,000

Utilities 65,000

Supplies 45,000

Depreciation 30,000

Total $420,000

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Consider that Bugaboo sells all the boxes it produces in May.

(a) Evaluate Bugaboo's plant-wide factory overhead rate for May.

(b) Determine May's product cost for each type of cookie.

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