Mississippi College Operations And Supply Chain Management Assignment Help - Amfac Company

Question - Amfac Company manufactures a single product. The company keeps careful records of
manufacturing activities from which the following information has been extracted:

Level of Activity
March?Low June?High
Number of units produced 6,000 9,000
Cost of goods manufactured $168,000 $257,000
Work in process inventory, beginning $9,000 $32,000
Work in process inventory, ending $15,000 $21,000
Direct materials cost per unit $6 $6
Direct labor cost per unit $10 $10
Manufacturing overhead cost, total ? ?


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 ...Read More of it is fixed per month.

Requirement 1:

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.

March June
Manufacturing overhead cost ? $ $

Requirement 2:

Using the high-low method, estimate a cost formula for manufacturing overhead where X represents
the number of units produced

Y = $ + $ X ...Read Less

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