Question & Answer: ion operates one central plant that has two divisions, the Flashlight Division and the Night Light Division. The f…..

The Alex Miller Corporation operates one central plant that has two divisions, the Flashlight Division and the Night Light Division. The following data apply to the coming budget year:

Budgeted costs of the operating the plant
for 10,000 to 20,000 hours:
Fixed operating costs per year $240,000
Variable operating costs $10 per hour
Practical capacity 20,000 hours per year
Budgeted long-run usage per year:
Lamp Division 800 hours × 12 months = 9,600 hours per year
Flashlight Division 450 hours × 12 months = 5,400 hours per year

Assume that practical capacity is used to calculate the allocation rates. Further assume that actual usage of the Lamp Division was 700 hours and the Flashlight Division was 400 hours for the month of June.

Required:

1) If a dual-rate cost allocation method is used, what amount of operating costs will be budgeted for the Lamp Division each month? For the Flashlight Division each month?

2) For the month of June, if a dual-rate cost allocation method is used, what amount of cost will be allocated to the Lamp Division? To the Flashlight Division? Assume budgeted usage is used to allocate fixed operating costs and actual usage is used to allocate variable operating costs.

Expert Answer

 

Ans 1
Fixed cost=240000/20000 $12 per hour
Budgeted cost-Lamp division
No. of hours*(Fixed cost per hour+variable cost per hour)
800*(12+10) 17600 per month
Budgeted cost- Flashlight division 9900 per month
450*(12+10)
d)
Allocated cost for June-Lamp division 16600 per month
Fixed cost+Variable cost
(800*12)+(700*10)
Allocated cost for June-Flashlight division 9400 per month
(450*12)+(400*10)
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