Vaughn's Bakery makes a variety of home-style cookies for upscale restaurants in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The company's best- selling cookie is the double chocolate almond supreme. Vaughn's recipe requires 80 ounces of a commercial cookie mix, 8 ounces of milk chocolate, and 4 ounces of almonds per batch of cookies. The standard direct materials costs are $1.20 per pound of cookie mix, $12.00 per pound of milk chocolate, and $11.00 per pound of almonds. Each batch of cookies requires 2 minutes of direct labor in the mixing department and 4 minutes of direct labor in the baking department. The standard labor rates in those departments are $12.00 per direct labor hour (DLH) and $24.00 per DLH, respectively. Variable overhead is applied at a rate of $42.00 per DLH; fixed overhead is applied at a rate of $70.00 per DLH. Calculate the standard cost for a batch of Vaughn's double chocolate almond supreme cookies. (Round answer to 2 decimal places, e.g. 3.51.) Standard cost per batch $

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Vaughn's Bakery makes a variety of home-style cookies for upscale restaurants in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The company's best-
selling cookie is the double chocolate almond supreme. Vaughn's recipe requires 80 ounces of a commercial cookie mix, 8 ounces of
milk chocolate, and 4 ounces of almonds per batch of cookies. The standard direct materials costs are $1.20 per pound of cookie mix,
$12.00 per pound of milk chocolate, and $11.00 per pound of almonds. Each batch of cookies requires 2 minutes of direct labor in the
mixing department and 4 minutes of direct labor in the baking department. The standard labor rates in those departments are $12.00
per direct labor hour (DLH) and $24.00 per DLH, respectively. Variable overhead is applied at a rate of $42.00 per DLH; fixed overhead
is applied at a rate of $70.00 per DLH.
Calculate the standard cost for a batch of Vaughn's double chocolate almond supreme cookies. (Round answer to 2 decimal places, e.g.
3.51.)
Standard cost per batch
Transcribed Image Text:Vaughn's Bakery makes a variety of home-style cookies for upscale restaurants in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The company's best- selling cookie is the double chocolate almond supreme. Vaughn's recipe requires 80 ounces of a commercial cookie mix, 8 ounces of milk chocolate, and 4 ounces of almonds per batch of cookies. The standard direct materials costs are $1.20 per pound of cookie mix, $12.00 per pound of milk chocolate, and $11.00 per pound of almonds. Each batch of cookies requires 2 minutes of direct labor in the mixing department and 4 minutes of direct labor in the baking department. The standard labor rates in those departments are $12.00 per direct labor hour (DLH) and $24.00 per DLH, respectively. Variable overhead is applied at a rate of $42.00 per DLH; fixed overhead is applied at a rate of $70.00 per DLH. Calculate the standard cost for a batch of Vaughn's double chocolate almond supreme cookies. (Round answer to 2 decimal places, e.g. 3.51.) Standard cost per batch
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