Amfac Company manufactures a single product. The company keeps careful records of manufacturing activities from which the following information has been extracted: The Company's manufacturing overhead cost consists of both variable and fixed cost elements. To have data available for planning, management wants to determine how much of the overhead cost is variable with units produced and how much of it is fixed per month.
(a) For both March and June, estimate the amount of manufacturing overhead cost added to production. The company had no underapplied or overapplied overhead in either month. (Hint: A useful way to proceed might be to construct a schedule of cost of goods manufactured.)

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1. Manufacturing overhead cost: let us prepare a schedule of cost of goods manufactured to determine the manufacturing overhead cost added to production.

Manufacturing overhead cost for march:

Schedule of cost goods manufactured

Beginning balance in works in process

35000

Plus current manufacturing costs:

Direct material (5600 units x $8)44,800

Direct labor ( 5600 * $10)56,000

Manufacturing overhead (288200-44800-56000)

1,87,400

Total (268200+55000-35000)

2,88,200

Less ending balance in works in process

-55,000

Cost of goods manufactured

2,68,200

Manufacturing overhead cost for June:

Schedule of cost goods manufactured

Beginning balance in works in process

27000

Plus current manufacturing costs:

Direct material (10200 units * $8)

81,600

Direct labor ( 10200 * $10)

1,02,000

Manufacturing overhead (394000-81600-102000)

2,10,400

Total (403000+18000-27000)

3,94,000

Less ending balance in works in process

-18,000

Cost of goods manufactured

4,03,000

2. High-low method: The cost equation such as variable cost and the fixed cost can be calculated using the high-low method as follows;

Variable cost per unit = (Highest cost - lowest cost) /( highest level of activity - lowest level of activity)

Variable cost per unit =( 210400 - 187400) / (10200 - 5600 )= 23000 / 4600

Variable cost per unit = $5

Total variable cost at lowest activity = 5 * 5600

Total variable cost= 28000

Fixed cost = Total cost - variable cost = 187400 - 28000 = $159400

Formula

Total overhead cost = 159400 + ( 5 * number of units produced)

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