Required information [The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] Arctica manufactures snowmobiles and ATVS. These products are made in different departments, and each department has its own manager. Each responsibility performance report includes only those costs that the department manager can control: direct materials, direct labor, supplies used, and utilities. Budget For Year Ended December 31 Direct materials Direct labor Totals Department manager salaries. Supplies used Utilities Rent Totals Snowmobile $ 19,810 10,700 ▸ 4,600 3,630 Controllable Costs Responsibility Accounting Performance Report Manager, Snowmobile Department For Year Ended December 31 Budgeted $ 390 6,000 $ 45,130 Prepare a responsibility accounting performance report for the snowmobile department. Note: Under budget amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. 0 $ ATV $ 27,800 20,800 5,500 930 570 6,600 $ 62,200 Actual Actual Snowmobile $ 19,720 10,990 4,700 3,470 360 5,600 $ 44,840 Over (Under) Budget $ ATV $ 29,150 21,570 4,700 970 6,600 $ 63,520

Overhead Rates, Unit Costs Folsom Company manufactures specialty tools to customer order. There are three producing departments. Departmental information on budgeted overhead and various activity measures for the coming year is as follows: Currently, overhead is applied on the basis of machine hours using a plantwide rate. However, Janine, the controller, has been wondering whether it might be worthwhile to use departmental overhead rates. She has analyzed the overhead costs and drivers for the various departments and decided that Welding and Finishing should base their overhead rates on machine hours and that Assembly should base its overhead rate on direct labor hours. Janine has been asked to prepare bids for two jobs with the following information: The typical bid price includes a 35% markup over full manufacturing cost. Round all overhead rates to the nearest cent. Round all bid prices to the nearest dollar. Required: 1. Calculate a plantwide rate for Folsom Company based on machine hours. What is the bid price of each job using this rate? 2. Calculate departmental overhead rates for the producing departments. What is the bid price of each job using these rates?

Firenza Company manufactures specialty tools to customer order. Budgeted overhead for the coming year is: Previously, Sanjay Bhatt, Firenza Companys controller, had applied overhead on the basis of machine hours. Expected machine hours for the coming year are 50,000. Sanjay has been reading about activity-based costing, and he wonders whether or not it might offer some advantages to his company. He decided that appropriate drivers for overhead activities are purchase orders for purchasing, number of setups for setup cost, engineering hours for engineering cost, and machine hours for other. Budgeted amounts for these drivers are 5,000 purchase orders, 500 setups, and 2,500 engineering hours. Sanjay has been asked to prepare bids for two jobs with the following information: The typical bid price includes a 40 percent markup over full manufacturing cost. Required: 1. Calculate a plantwide rate for Firenza Company based on machine hours. What is the bid price of each job using this rate? 2. Calculate activity rates for the four overhead activities. What is the bid price of each job using these rates? 3. Which bids are more accurate? Why?

Required information [The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] Arctica manufactures snowmobiles and ATVs. These products are made in different departments, and each department has its own manager. Each responsibility performance report includes only those costs that the department manager can control: direct materials, direct labor, supplies used, and utilities. Budget For Year Ended December 31 Direct materials Direct labor Department manager salaries Supplies used Utilities Rent Totals Responsibility Accounting Performance Report Manager, ATV Department For Year Ended December 31 Controllable Costs Snowmobile $ 19,990 10,900 4,800 3,850 410 6,200 $ 46,150 Budgeted $ Prepare a responsibility accounting performance report for the ATV department. (Under budget amounts should be indicated minus sign.) 19,990 $ 10,200 x 3,850 x 6,500 X Actual 19,920 11,210 Direct materials Direct labor Supplies used Utilities Totals $ 40,540 $ 60 *Red text indicates no response…

[The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] Arctica manufactures snowmobiles and ATVs. These products are made in different departments, and each department has its own manager. Each responsibility performance report includes only those costs that the department manager can control: direct materials, direct labor, supplies used, and utilities. Budget For Year Ended December 31 Direct materials Direct labor Department manager salaries Supplies used Utilities Rent Totals Controllable Costs Direct materials Direct labor Supplies used Utilities Totals Responsibility Accounting Performance Report- Manager, Snowmobile Department For Year Ended December 31 $ Snowmobile $ 21,520 12,400 6,300 5,500 560 7,700 $ 53,980 Budgeted Prepare a responsibility accounting performance report for the snowmobile department. (Under budget amounts should be indicated by a minus sign.) 0 $ ATV $ 29,500 22,500 7,200 Actual 1,100 740 8,300 $ 69,340 0 $ Actual Snowmobile $ 21,420 12,860…

! Required information [The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] Totals Arctica manufactures snowmobiles and ATVs. These products are made in different departments, and each department has its own manager. Each responsibility performance report includes only those costs that the department manager can control: direct materials, direct labor, supplies used, and utilities. Budget For Year Ended December 31 Direct materials Direct labor Department manager salaries Supplies used Utilities Rent Totals Snowmobile $ 19,880 10,800 4,700 3,740 400 6,100 $ 45,620 Prepare a responsibility accounting performance report for the ATV department. Note: Under budget amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. Responsibility Accounting Performance Report Manager, ATV Department For Year Ended December 31 Budgeted Controllable Costs ATV $ 27,900 20,900 5,600 940 580 6,700 $ 62,620 Actual Over (Under) Budget Actual Snowmobile $ 19,820 11,100 4,800 3,570 370 5,700 $ 45,360 ATV…

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Middler Corporation, a manufacturer of electronics and communications systems, uses a service department charge system to charge profit centers with Computing and Communications Services (CCS) service department costs. The following table identifies an abbreviated list of service categories and activity bases used by the CCS department. The table also includes some assumed cost and activity base quantity information for each service for October. CCS ServiceCategory Activity Base Budgeted Cost Budgeted ActivityBase Quantity Help desk Number of calls $55,660   2,200   Network center Number of devices monitored 668,100   10,200   Electronic mail Number of user accounts 57,500   5,750   Handheld technology support Number of handheld devices issued 153,600   9,600   One of the profit centers for Middler Corporation is the Communication Systems (COMM) sector. Assume the following information for the COMM sector: The sector has 1,000 employees, of whom 50% are office employees.…

Service Department Charges and Activity Bases Middler Corporation, a manufacturer of electronics and communications systems, uses a service department charge system to charge profit centers with Computing and Communications Services (CCS) service department costs. The following table identifies an abbreviated list of service categories and activity bases used by the CCS department. The table also includes some assumed cost and activity base quantity information for each service for October. CCS ServiceCategory Activity Base Budgeted Cost Budgeted ActivityBase Quantity Help desk Number of calls $123,380   3,100   Network center Number of devices monitored 529,200   9,450   Electronic mail Number of user accounts 61,000   6,100   Smartphone support Number of smartphones issued 142,400   8,900   One of the profit centers for Middler Corporation is the Communication Systems (COMM) sector. Assume the following information for the COMM sector: • The sector has 2,000 employees,…

Service Department Charges and Activity Bases Middler Corporation, a manufacturer of electronics and communications systems, uses a service department charge system to charge profit centers with Computing and Communications Services (CCS) service department costs. The following table identifies an abbreviated list of service categories and activity bases used by the CCS department. The table also includes some assumed cost and activity base quantity information for each service for October. CCS ServiceCategory Activity Base Budgeted Cost Budgeted ActivityBase Quantity Help desk Number of calls $133,760   3,200   Network center Number of devices monitored 748,250   10,250   Electronic mail Number of user accounts 70,950   6,450   Handheld technology support Number of handheld devices issued 168,960   9,600   One of the profit centers for Middler Corporation is the Communication Systems (COMM) sector. Assume the following information for the COMM sector: The sector has…