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Case (Algo) [LO4-2, LO4-3, LO4-4] Coffec Bcan, incorporated ice9. is a processot and distributor of a variefy of biends of coffee The company buys colfee beans fiom around the world and roasts, blends, and packages them for resole CBI offers a large variefy of different coffees that it sefls to gourmet shops in one pound bags. The major cost of the coffee is raw materials. However, the company's predominantly alitomated forsting biending, and packing processes require a substantial amount of manufacturing overhead. The company uses relatively linte direct iabor. Some of CBi's collees are very popular and sell in large volumer, while a few of the newer biends sell in very low volumes. For the coming year, CBIs budget includes estimated manufacturing overhead cost of $3,420,000. CBI assigns manufacturing overhead to products on the basis of direct labor-hours. The expected direct labor cost totals $570000, which represents 57,000 houss of direct labor ume The expected costs for diect materiaks and direct labor for one-pound bags of two of the company's cotfee products appear beiow CBrs contioller believes that the company's traditional costing system may be providing misleading cost information. To determine Whether or not this is correct, the controllet has prepared an analysis of the year's expected manufacturing overhead costs, as shown nit the following table Ointa regarding the expected production of Mona Las and Malaysian colfee are presented below there wili be no raw materials inverfaty foc ether of these collees at the beginning of the yesi Pequired: yent coflet and tie Malerthan coglet

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