Fundamentals of Cost Accounting
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ISBN: 9781259565403
Author: William N. Lanen Professor, Shannon Anderson Associate Professor, Michael W Maher
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 10, Problem 58P
Activity-Based Reporting: Manufacturing
Leidenheimer Corporation manufactures small airplane propellers. Sales for year 2 totaled $1,700,000. Information regarding resources for the month follows:
In addition, Leidenheimer spent $50,000 on 50 engineering changes with a cost-driver rate of $1,000, and $60,000 on eight outside contracts with a cost driver rate of $7,500.
Required
Management has requested that you do the following:
- a. Prepare a traditional income statement.
- b. Prepare an activity-based income statement.
- c. Write a short report explaining why the activity-based income statement provides useful information to managers. Use the information from requirements (a) and (b) to develop examples for your report.
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[The following information applies to the questions displayed below.]Barnes Company reports the following for its product for its first year of operations.
Direct materials
$ 34
per unit
Direct labor
$ 24
per unit
Variable overhead
$ 12
per unit
Fixed overhead
$ 54,000
per year
Variable selling and administrative expenses
$ 2
per unit
Fixed selling and administrative expenses
$ 26,000
per year
Exercise 19-4 (Algo) Computing cost per unit at different production levels LO P1, P2
P1. Compute total product cost per unit using absorption costing for the following production levels: (a) 3,000 units, (b) 3,600 units, and (c) 4,500 units.
P2. The company sells its product for $140 per unit. Compute contribution margin using variable costing assuming the company (a) produces and sells 3,000 units and (b) produces 3,600 units and sells 3,000 units.
At the end of the first month of opening your business, you calculate the actual operating costs of the business and the income you earned. You also notice and document the difference in what you budgeted for certain materials and labor against the actual amounts you spent on the same.
For your statement of cost of goods sold, use the following data regarding the actual costs incurred by the business over the past month:
· Materials purchased: $20,000
o Consumed 80% of the purchased materials
· Direct labor: $8,493
· Overhead costs: $3,765
Note: Assume that the beginning materials and ending work in process are zero for the month.
Use the following revenue and cost information for the income statement. Note that the revenue you use will depend on the pricing level options you chose in Milestone Two. Also, assume that after accounting for weekends and other holidays, there were 20 business days in the first month of operation. For example, if you chose a sales price of $20 per…
Corazon Manufacturing Company has a purchasing department staffed by five purchasingagents. Each agent is paid $28,000 per year and is able to process 4,000 purchase orders. Lastyear, 17,800 purchase orders were processed by the five agents.Required:1. Calculate the activity rate per purchase order.2. Calculate, in terms of purchase orders, the:a. total activity availabilityb. unused capacity3. Calculate the dollar cost of:a. total activity availabilityb. unused capacity4. Express total activity availability in terms of activity capacity used and unused capacity.
5. What if one of the purchasing agents agreed to work half time for $14,000? How many pur-chase orders could be processed by four and a half purchasing agents? What would unused
capacity be in purchase orders?
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Fundamentals of Cost Accounting
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