Cullumber Inc. makes two types of handbags: standard and custom. The controller has decided to use a plant-wide overhead rate based on direct labour costs. The president has heard of activity-based costing and wants to see how the results would differ if this system were used. Two activity cost pools were developed: machining (machine hours) and machine set-up (number of set-ups). The total estimated machine hours is 1,500, and the total estimated number of setups is 500. Presented below is information related to the company's operations. Direct labour costs Machine hours Set-up hours Standard $50,000 (a) 500 100 Custom $100,000 1,000 Total estimated overhead costs are $360,000. The overhead cost allocated to the machining activity cost pool is $187,500, and $172,500 is allocated to the machine set-up activity cost pool. Predetermined overhead rate 400 Calculate the overhead rate using the traditional (plant-wide) approach. % of direct labour cost SUF

Fountain Water Products (FWP) manufacturers water bottles. They have historically used a traditional system that allocated the manufacturing overhead costs based on machine hours. FWP is looking at switching to an ABC system in order to ensure more accurate product costing. They first want to compare the traditional and ABC costing systems to determine if it is worth the effort and costs to implement and maintain.   They estimate a total overhead cost of $459,000. Under the traditional system they identified machine hours as the cost driver, and estimated a total of 51,000 machine hours. They actually incurred 48,700 machine hours in production. The total applied MOH calculated under the more precise ABC system was $320,000. The ABC costing system will cost $50,000 to implement. FWP has determined that a benefit of more accurate costing by $80,000 is worth the $50,000 implementation cost. What is the difference between the ABC costing and traditional system? Enter your number as a…

XYZ, Incorporated, makes foam seat cushions for the automotive and aerospace industries. The company's activity-based costing system has four activity cost pools, which are listed below along with their activity measures and activity rates: Activity Cost Pool Supporting direct labor Batch processing Order processing Customer service Activity Measure Number of direct labor-hours. Number of batches. Number of orders Number of customers The company just completed a single order from I Truck for 1,600 custom seat cushions. The order was produced in three batches. Each seat cushion required 0.3 direct labor-hours. The selling price was $141.80 per unit, the direct materials cost was $106 per unit, and the direct labor cost was $13.90 per unit. This was I Truck's only order during the year. Required: Calculate the customer margin on sales to I Truck for the year. Costs: Interstate Trucking Customer Margin-ABC Analysis Customer margin Activity Rate $10 per direct labor-hour $92 per batch $280…

Drippin' in Heat manufactures the finest formal wear west of the Mississippi. The company produces two main products: Suit Jackets and Sport Coats. Currently the company uses a traditional overhead rate in which Manufacturing Overhead is allocated to products based on direct labor hours logged. The projected production levels for the period are 1,200 Suit Jackets and 400 Sport Coats. Due to profitability concerns, management is considering switching to Activity-Based Costing (ABC). Management has divided manufacturing overhead costs into three activities and cost pools: Assembly $30,000; Machine Setup $20,000; and Product Movement $102,400. Management has identified the following cost drivers for each overhead activity: direct labor hours for assembly, number of setups for machine setup, and number of moves for product movement. The following information has been compiled for each product line: Direct Labor Requirements Machine Setup Requirements Product Movement Requirements Suit…