Freeze Frame, Inc A Compute a Departmental Overhead Rate for Department a Based

Essay

Freeze Frame, Inc. produces cameras that require three processes, A, B, and C, to complete. Digital camera model #789 is the best-selling of all the many types of cameras produced. Information related to the 550,000 units of digital camera model #789 produced annually is shown below:



Freeze Frame's total expected overhead costs and related overhead data are shown in the following table:
$$\begin{array} { | l | l | l | l | } \hline & \text { Department A } & \text { Department B } & \text { Department C } \\\hline \text { Direct labor hours } & 90,000 \mathrm { DLH } & 75,000 \mathrm { DLH } & 42,000 \mathrm { DLH } \\\hline \text { Machine hours } & 67,500 \mathrm { MH } & 135,000 \mathrm { MH } & 53,200 \mathrm { MH } \\\hline \text { Manufacturing overhead costs } & \$ 540,000 & \$ 675,000 & \$ 399,000 \\\hline\end{array}$$

a. Compute a departmental overhead rate for department A based on machine hours.
b. How much overhead is associated with model 789 from department A?
c. Compute a departmental overhead rate for department B based on direct labor hours.
d. How much overhead is associated with model 789 from department B?
e. Compute a departmental overhead rate for department C based on machine hours.
f. How much overhead is associated with model 789 from department C?
g What is the per unit cost of the 550,000 units of model 789?