Vargo company makes two distinct products with the

Question

Vargo Company makes two distinct products with the following information available for each.

The company's direct labor rate is $20 per direct labor hour (DLH). Additional information follows.

Required: 

1. Compute the manufacturing cost per unit using the plant wide overhead rate based on machine hours. What is the gross profit per unit? 

2. How much gross profit is generated by each customer of the standard product using the plant wide overhead rate? How much gross profit is generated by each customer of the deluxe product using the plant wide overhead rate? What is the cost of providing customer service to each customer? What information is provided by this comparison? 

3. Determine the manufacturing cost per unit of each product line using ABC. What is the gross profit per unit? 

4. How much gross profit is generated by each customer of the standard product using ABC? How much gross profit is generated by each customer of the deluxe product using ABC? Is the gross profit per customer adequate? 

5. Which method of product costing gives better information to managers of this company?Explain.