Lystra Corporation manufactures two products, Product B and Product H. Product H is of
fairly recent origin, having been developed as an attempt to enter a market closely related
to that of Product B. Product H is the more complex of the two products, requiring two
hours of direct labor time per unit to manufacture compared to one hour of direct labor
time for Product B. Product H is produced on an automated production line.
Overhead is currently assigned to the products on the basis of direct-labor-hours. The
company estimated it would incur $450,000 in manufacturing overhead costs and produce
30,000 units of Product B and 7,500 units of Product H during the current year. Unit costs
for materials and direct labor are:
Required:
a. Compute the predetermined overhead rate under the current costing method and
determine the unit product cost of each product for the current year.
b. The company’s overhead costs can be attributed to four major activities. These
activities and the amount of overhead cost attributable to each for the current year are
given below: