The following information is provided for Space Antenna Corp., which manufactures two products: Lo-Gain antennas and Hi-Gain antennas for use in remote areas. E (Click the icon to view the information.) Space Antenna plans to produce 50 Lo-Gain antennas and 325 Hi-Gain antennas. Read the requirements. Requirement 1. Compute the indirect manufacturing cost per unit using direct labor hours for the single plantwide predetermined overhead allocation rate. First, compute the predetermined overhead (OH) allocation rate. (Round your answer to the nearest cent.) The predetermined overhead (OH) allocation rate is Data Table Activity Cost Allocation Base Setup 51,000 Number of setups 42,000 Number of machine hours Machine maintenance 93,000 Total indirect manufacturing costs Lo-Gain Hi-Gain Total Direct labor hours 1,600 4,400 6,000 Number of setups 20 20 40 Number of machine hours 3,500 1,500 5,000

The following information is provided for Space Antenna Corp., which manufactures two products: Lo-Gain antennas and Hi-Gain antennas for use in remote areas. E (Click the icon to view the information.) Space Antenna plans to produce 50 Lo-Gain antennas and 325 Hi-Gain antennas. Read the requirements. Requirement 1. Compute the indirect manufacturing cost per unit using direct labor hours for the single plantwide predetermined overhead allocation rate. First, compute the predetermined overhead (OH) allocation rate. (Round your answer to the nearest cent.) The predetermined overhead (OH) allocation rate is Data Table Activity Cost Allocation Base Setup 51,000 Number of setups 42,000 Number of machine hours Machine maintenance 93,000 Total indirect manufacturing costs Lo-Gain Hi-Gain Total Direct labor hours 1,600 4,400 6,000 Number of setups 20 20 40 Number of machine hours 3,500 1,500 5,000

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Principles of Accounting Volume 2

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Chapter6: Activity-based, Variable, And Absorption Costing

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Silven Company has identified the following overhead activities, costs, and activity drivers for the coming year: Silven produces two models of cell phones with the following expected activity demands: 1. Determine the total overhead assigned to each product using the four activity drivers. 2. Determine the total overhead assigned to each model using the two most expensive activities. The costs of the two relatively inexpensive activities are allocated to the two expensive activities in proportion to their costs. 3. Using ABC as the benchmark, calculate the percentage error and comment on the accuracy of the reduced system. Explain why this approach may be desirable.
Larsen, Inc., produces two types of electronic parts and has provided the following data: There are four activities: machining, setting up, testing, and purchasing. Required: 1. Calculate the activity consumption ratios for each product. 2. Calculate the consumption ratios for the plantwide rate (direct labor hours). When compared with the activity ratios, what can you say about the relative accuracy of a plantwide rate? Which product is undercosted? 3. What if the machine hours were used for the plantwide rate? Would this remove the cost distortion of a plantwide rate?
Box Springs. Inc., makes two sizes of box springs: queen and king. The direct material for the queen is $35 per unit and $55 is used in direct labor, while the direct material for the king is $55 per unit, and the labor cost is $70 per unit. Box Springs estimates it will make 4,300 queens and 3,000 kings in the next year. It estimates the overhead for each cost pool and cost driver activities as follows: How much does each unit cost to manufacture?
Brees, Inc., a manufacturer of golf carts, has just received an offer from a supplier to provide 2,600 units of a component used in its main product. The component is a track assembly that is currently produced internally. The supplier has offered to sell the track assembly for 66 per unit. Brees is currently using a traditional, unit-based costing system that assigns overhead to jobs on the basis of direct labor hours. The estimated traditional full cost of producing the track assembly is as follows: Prior to making a decision, the companys CEO commissioned a special study to see whether there would be any decrease in the fixed overhead costs. The results of the study revealed the following: 3 setups1,160 each (The setups would be avoided, and total spending could be reduced by 1,160 per setup.) One half-time inspector is needed. The company already uses part-time inspectors hired through a temporary employment agency. The yearly cost of the part-time inspectors for the track assembly operation is 12,300 and could be totally avoided if the part were purchased. Engineering work: 470 hours, 45/hour. (Although the work decreases by 470 hours, the engineer assigned to the track assembly line also spends time on other products, and there would be no reduction in his salary.) 75 fewer material moves at 30 per move. Required: 1. Ignore the special study, and determine whether the track assembly should be produced internally or purchased from the supplier. 2. Now, using the special study data, repeat the analysis. 3. Discuss the qualitative factors that would affect the decision, including strategic implications. 4. After reviewing the special study, the controller made the following remark: This study ignores the additional activity demands that purchasing would cause. For example, although the demand for inspecting the part on the production floor decreases, we may need to inspect the incoming parts in the receiving area. Will we actually save any inspection costs? Is the controller right?
Medical Tape makes two products: Generic and Label. It estimates it will produce 423,694 units of Generic and 652,200 of Label, and the overhead for each of its cost pools is as follows: It has also estimated the activities for each cost driver as follows: How much is the overhead allocated to each unit of Generic and Label?
Stacks manufactures two different levels of hockey sticks: the Standard and the Slap Shot. The total overhead of $600,000 has traditionally been allocated by direct labor hours, with 400,000 hours for the Standard and 200.000 hours for the Slap Shot. After analyzing and assigning costs to two cost pools, it was determined that machine hours is estimated to have $450.000 of overhead, with 30,000 hours used on the Standard product and 15,000 hours used on the Slap Shot product. It was also estimated that the inspection cost pool would have $150,000 of overhead, with 25,000 hours for the Standard and 5,000 hours for the Slap Shot. What is the overhead rate per product, under traditional and under ABC costing?
Evans, Inc., has a unit-based costing system. Evanss Miami plant produces 10 different electronic products. The demand for each product is about the same. Although they differ in complexity, each product uses about the same labor time and materials. The plant has used direct labor hours for years to assign overhead to products. To help design engineers understand the assumed cost relationships, the Cost Accounting Department developed the following cost equation. (The equation describes the relationship between total manufacturing costs and direct labor hours; the equation is supported by a coefficient of determination of 60 percent.) Y=5,000,000+30X,whereX=directlaborhours The variable rate of 30 is broken down as follows: Because of competitive pressures, product engineering was given the charge to redesign products to reduce the total cost of manufacturing. Using the above cost relationships, product engineering adopted the strategy of redesigning to reduce direct labor content. As each design was completed, an engineering change order was cut, triggering a series of events such as design approval, vendor selection, bill of materials update, redrawing of schematic, test runs, changes in setup procedures, development of new inspection procedures, and so on. After one year of design changes, the normal volume of direct labor was reduced from 250,000 hours to 200,000 hours, with the same number of products being produced. Although each product differs in its labor content, the redesign efforts reduced the labor content for all products. On average, the labor content per unit of product dropped from 1.25 hours per unit to one hour per unit. Fixed overhead, however, increased from 5,000,000 to 6,600,000 per year. Suppose that a consultant was hired to explain the increase in fixed overhead costs. The consultants study revealed that the 30 per hour rate captured the unit-level variable costs; however, the cost behavior of other activities was quite different. For example, setting up equipment is a step-fixed cost, where each step is 2,000 setup hours, costing 90,000. The study also revealed that the cost of receiving goods is a function of the number of different components. This activity has a variable cost of 2,000 per component type and a fixed cost that follows a step-cost pattern. The step is defined by 20 components with a cost of 50,000 per step. Assume also that the consultant indicated that the design adopted by the engineers increased the demand for setups from 20,000 setup hours to 40,000 setup hours and the number of different components from 100 to 250. The demand for other non-unit-level activities remained unchanged. The consultant also recommended that management take a look at a rejected design for its products. This rejected design increased direct labor content from 250,000 hours to 260,000 hours, decreased the demand for setups from 20,000 hours to 10,000 hours, and decreased the demand for purchasing from 100 component types to 75 component types, while the demand for all other activities remained unchanged. Required: 1. Using normal volume, compute the manufacturing cost per labor hour before the year of design changes. What is the cost per unit of an average product? 2. Using normal volume after the one year of design changes, compute the manufacturing cost per hour. What is the cost per unit of an average product? 3. Before considering the consultants study, what do you think is the most likely explanation for the failure of the design changes to reduce manufacturing costs? Now use the information from the consultants study to explain the increase in the average cost per unit of product. What changes would you suggest to improve Evanss efforts to reduce costs? 4. Explain why the consultant recommended a second look at a rejected design. Provide computational support. What does this tell you about the strategic importance of cost management?
Plata Company has identified the following overhead activities, costs, and activity drivers for the coming year: Plata produces two models of microwave ovens with the following activity demands: The companys normal activity is 21,000 machine hours. Calculate the total overhead cost that would be assigned to Model X using an activity-based costing system: a. 230,000 b. 240,000 c. 280,000 d. 190,000
Casey Company has five activity cost pools and two products. It expects to produce 200,000 units of its automobile scissors jack and 80,000 units of its truck hydraulic jack. Having identified its activity cost pools and the cost drivers for each cost pool, Casey Company accumulated the following data relative to those activity cost pools and cost drivers. Expected Use of Cost Drivers per Product Hydraulic Jacks Annual Overhead Data Expected Use of Cost Drivers per Activity Estimated Scissors Activity Cost Pools Ordering and receiving Machine setup Machining Assembling Inspecting and testing Cost Drivers Overhead Jacks $ 200,000 600,000 2,000,000 1,800,000 700,000 2,500 orders 1,200 setups 800,000 hours 1,500 700 500,000 1,200,000 15,000 Purchase orders 1,000 Setups Machine hours 500 Parts Tests 3,000,000 parts 35,000 tests 300,000 1,800,000 20,000 $5,300,000 Required: Using ABC Calculate Per Unit and Total cost of Both Products also Comment?
SIMPly Power Inc., manufactures and sells two products: Product V9 and Product B1. Data concerning the expected production of each product and the expected total direct labour-hours (DLHS) required to produce that output appear below: Product V9 Product B1 Total direct labour-hours Product V9 Product B1 Activity Cost Pools Labour-related The direct labour rate is $27.40 per DLH. The direct materials cost per unit for each product is given below: Machine setups General factory Expected Production 300 The company is considering adopting an activity-based costing system with the following activity cost pools, activity measures, and expected activity: O $86.5 per unit 800 O $129.12 per unit O $217.95 per unit O $272.08 per unit Activity Measures DLHS Direct Labour-Hours Per Unit 5.0 3.0 setups Direct Materials Cost per Unit $176.90 $262.80 MHS Estimated Overhead Cost $94,848 36,990 62,408 $194,246 Total Direct Labour- Hours 1,500 2,400 3.900 Expected Activity Product V9 Product B1 Total…
Vattes, Incorporated, manufactures and sells two products: Product 15 and Product U1. Data concerning the expected production of each product and the expected total direct labor-hours (DLHs) required to produce that output appear below: Product 15 Product U1 Direct Labor- Expected Hours Per Production Unit 700 7.0 200 4.0 Activity Cost Pools Labor-related Machine setups Order size Product 15 Product U1 Total direct labor-hours The direct labor rate is $22.00 per DLH. The direct materials cost per unit for each product is given below: Direct Materials Cost per Unit $ 261.60 $ 121.60 Activity Measures DLHS setups MHS The company is considering adopting an activity-based costing system with the following activity cost pools, activity measures, and expected activity, Expected Activity Total Direct Labor- Estimated Overhead Cost $ 268,698 Hours 4,900 800 5,700 37,324 633,895 $939,917 Product 15 Product U1 4,900 300 4,900 800 400 4,800 Total 5,700 700 9,700
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