2. The company is considering replacing its traditional costing system with an activity-based absorption costing system that would have the following three activity cost pools: Estimated Overhead Cost $ 385,000 132,000 69,000 $ 586,000 Activity Cost Pools (and Activity Measures) Supporting direct labor (direct labor-hours) Batch setups (setups) Safety testing (tests) Total manufacturing overhead cost Determine the unit product costs of the Deluxe and Standard products under the activity-based absorption costing system. Expected Activity Deluxe 7,000 200 30 Standard 70,000 100 70 Total 77,000 300 100

2. The company is considering replacing its traditional costing system with an activity-based absorption costing system that would have the following three activity cost pools: Estimated Overhead Cost $ 385,000 132,000 69,000 $ 586,000 Activity Cost Pools (and Activity Measures) Supporting direct labor (direct labor-hours) Batch setups (setups) Safety testing (tests) Total manufacturing overhead cost Determine the unit product costs of the Deluxe and Standard products under the activity-based absorption costing system. Expected Activity Deluxe 7,000 200 30 Standard 70,000 100 70 Total 77,000 300 100

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Chapter6: Activity-based, Variable, And Absorption Costing

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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?
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?
The company is considering using a two-stage cost allocation system and wants to assess the effects on reported product profits. The company is considering using Engineering Hours and Users as the allocation base. Additional information follows. Toot! TiX Total Engineering hours 7,650 5,650 13,300 Users 9,500 17,100 26,600 Engineering – hour related administrative cost $ 114,380 User-related administrative cost $…
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Your Company has two products: A and B. The company uses activity-based costing. The estimated total cost and expected activity for each of the company's three activity cost pools are as follows: Estimated Expected Activity Activity Cost Pool Cost Product A Product B Total Machine related $17,600 700 300 1,000 MH Batch setup $32,600 600 200 800 Setups Other $52,500 900 500 1,400 DLH What is the activity rate under the activity-based costing system for Batch setups? Group of answer choices $54.33 $40.75 $40.75 per Setup $16.30 $16.30 per Setup $54.33 per Setup
Deuter Int’l Business manufactures two products, Product L11 and Product L12. The company is considering adopting an activity-based costing system with the following activity pools, activity measures, and expected activity: Expected Activity Activity Cost Pools Estimated Overhead Cost Product L11 Product 12 Total Machine setups required $200,000 600 1,400 2,000 Purchase orders issued 38,382 500 100 600 Machine-hours required 92,650 6,800 10,200 17,000 $331,032 The amount overhead costs assigned to Product L11 would be closest to: Question 15 options: 1) $331,032 2) $129,045 3) $165,516 4) $130,758
Delight Business Ltd (DIB) manufactures two products, Product L11 and Product L12. The company is considering adopting an activity-based costing system with the following activity pools, activity measures, and expected activity: Expected Activity Activity Cost Pools Estimated Overhead Cost Product L11 Product L12 Total Machine setups required $200,000 600 1,400 2,000 Purchase orders issued 38,382 500 100 600 Machine-hours required 92,650 6,800 10,200 17,000 $331,032 The amount overhead costs assigned to Product L12 would be closest to: Question 15 options: 1) $165,516 2) $201,987 3) $200,274 4) $331,032
Mirabile Corporation uses activity-based costing to compute product margins. Overhead costs have already been allocated to the company's three activity cost pools-- Processing, Supervising, and Other. The costs in those activity cost pools appear below: Processing $ 3,800 $ 23,800 $ 10,400 Supervising other Processing costs are assigned to products using machine-hours (MHs) and Supervising costs are assigned to products using the number of batches. The costs in the Other activity cost pool are not assigned to products. Activity data appear below: Batches MHs (Processing) (Supervising) Product MO 9,700 500 Product M5 300 500 Total 10,000 1,000 Finally, sales and direct cost data are combined with Processing and Supervising costs to determine product margins. Product MO Product M5 $ 74,100 $ 28,500 $ 27,800 $ 89,900 $ 31,400 $ 41,700 Sales (total) Direct materials (total) Direct labor (total) What is the product margin for Product M5 under activity-based costing? Multiple Choice C4786
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Finney Inc. has conducted an analysis of overhead costs related to one of its product lines using a traditional costing system (volume-based) and an activity-based costing system. Here are its results. Traditional Costing ABC Sales revenue $600,000 $600,000 Overhead Costs: Product RX3 $34,000 $50,000 ProductY12 36,000 20,000 $70,000 $70,000Explain how a difference in the overhead costs between the two systems may have occurred.
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