Question

Lemon Yellow Company produces childrens clothing that requires two processes, cutting and sewing, to complete. The company is concerned about one product, a hooded jacket, which hasnt been selling as well as it had in past years. Information related to the 20,000 jackets produced annually is shown in the following table:


Direct materials $26,000
Direct labor
Cutting Department (200 DLH x $20 per DLH) $4,000
Sewing Department (2,000 DLH x $22 per DLH) $44,000
Machine hours
Cutting Department 160 MH
Sewing Department 1,500 MH

Lemon Yellows total expected overhead costs and related overhead data are shown below. The company uses departmental overhead rates based on direct labor hours in the Cutting Department and machine hours in the Sewing Department.


Cutting Department Sewing Department
Direct labor hours 16,000 DLH 175,000 DLH
Machine hours 3,200 MH 30,000 MH
Manufacturing overhead costs $480,000 $240,000

Assume this jacket currently sells for $10. How much profit does the company make per jacket?

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