Financial & Managerial Accounting 17th Edition by Jan Williams ,Susan Haka,Mark Bettner,Joseph Carcello

Exercise 45

Wrigley Company manufactures chewing gum. Visit its home page at the following address:
From the home page, click on the choices labeled "About Us," then "The Story of Wrigley" and "All About Chewing Gum."
Instructions
a. Prepare a simple flowchart that illustrates the major steps in the manufacture of chewing gum.
b. If Wrigley uses process costing, how many separate processing departments might be used and what would you label them?
c. What do you think are the major types of manufacturing overhead at Wrigley ? What activity bases could be used to assign each type of overhead to the processing departments you listed in part b ?
Internet sites are time and date sensitive. It is the purpose of these exercises to have you explore the Internet. You may need to use the Yahoo! search engine http://www.yahoo.com (or another favorite search engine) to look for a company's current Web address.