Cornerstones of Cost Management (Cornerstones Series)
Cornerstones of Cost Management (Cornerstones Series)
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ISBN: 9781305970663
Author: Don R. Hansen, Maryanne M. Mowen
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 12, Problem 24P

Baker, Inc., supplies wheels for a large bicycle manufacturing company. The bicycle company has recently requested that Baker decrease its delivery time. Baker made a commitment to reduce the lead time for delivery from seven days to one day. To help achieve this goal, engineering and production workers had made the commitment to reduce time for the setup activity (other activities such as moving materials and rework were also being examined simultaneously). Current setup times were 12 hours. Setup cost was $600 per setup hour. For the first quarter, engineering developed a new process design that it believed would reduce the setup time from 12 hours to nine hours. After implementing the design, the actual setup time dropped from 12 hours to seven hours. Engineering believed the actual reduction was sustainable. In the second quarter, production workers suggested a new setup procedure. Engineering gave the suggestion a positive evaluation, and they projected that the new approach would save an additional six hours of setup time. Setup labor was trained to perform the new setup procedures. The actual reduction in setup time based on the suggested changes was four hours.

Required:

  1. 1. What kaizen setup standard would be used at the beginning of each quarter?
  2. 2. Describe the kaizen subcycle using the two quarters of data provided by Baker.
  3. 3. Describe the maintenance subcycle for setups using the two quarters of data provided by Baker.
  4. 4. How much non-value-added cost was eliminated by the end of two quarters? Discuss the role of kaizen costing in activity-based management.
  5. 5. Explain why kaizen costing is compatible with activity-based responsibility accounting while standard costing is compatible with financial-based responsibility accounting.
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Chapter 12 Solutions

Cornerstones of Cost Management (Cornerstones Series)

Ch. 12 - Prob. 11DQCh. 12 - Prob. 12DQCh. 12 - Prob. 13DQCh. 12 - Describe a financial-based responsibility...Ch. 12 - Describe an activity-based responsibility...Ch. 12 - Cicleta Manufacturing has four activities:...Ch. 12 - Assume that at the beginning of 20x2, Cicleta...Ch. 12 - Gordon Company produces custom-made machine parts....Ch. 12 - Foy Company has a welding activity and wants to...Ch. 12 - Uchdorf Manufacturing just completed a study of...Ch. 12 - Harvey Company produces two models of blenders:...Ch. 12 - Prob. 7ECh. 12 - Thayne Company has 30 clerks that work in its...Ch. 12 - Suppose that clerical erroreither Thaynes or the...Ch. 12 - Refer to Exercise 12.8. Suppose that clerical...Ch. 12 - Prob. 11ECh. 12 - For Situations 1 through 6, provide the following...Ch. 12 - Maquina Company produces custom-made machine...Ch. 12 - Sanford, Inc., has developed value-added standards...Ch. 12 - Refer to Exercise 12.14. Suppose that for 20x2,...Ch. 12 - Jane Erickson, manager of an electronics division,...Ch. 12 - For each of the following situations, two...Ch. 12 - Which of the following are examples of...Ch. 12 - A company is spending 70,000 per year for...Ch. 12 - Which of the following is likely to be used to...Ch. 12 - Activity-based management includes both process...Ch. 12 - The activity of moving materials uses four...Ch. 12 - Joseph Fox, controller of Thorpe Company, has been...Ch. 12 - Baker, Inc., supplies wheels for a large bicycle...Ch. 12 - Novo, Inc., wants to develop an activity flexible...Ch. 12 - Prob. 26PCh. 12 - Tom Young, vice president of Dunn Company (a...Ch. 12 - Bienestar, Inc., has two plants that manufacture a...Ch. 12 - Kelly Gray, production manager, was upset with the...Ch. 12 - Douglas Davis, controller for Marston, Inc.,...
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