Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making
7th Edition
ISBN: 9781118334331
Author: Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel, Donald E. Kieso
Publisher: WILEY
expand_more
expand_more
format_list_bulleted
Concept explainers
Videos
Textbook Question
Chapter 4, Problem 4.4DI
Ready Ride is a trucking company. It provides local, short-haul, and long-haul services. It has developed the following three cost pools.
 
 (a) Compute the activity-based
 (b) Determine the overhead allocated to Job XZ3275 which has 150 pieces, requires 200 miles of driving, and 0.75 hours of logistics.
Expert Solution & Answer
Want to see the full answer?
Check out a sample textbook solution
Students have asked these similar questions
Hakara Company has been using direct labor costs as the basis for assigning overhead to its many products. Under this allocation system, product A has been assigned overhead of $35.29 per unit, while product B has been assigned $8.25 per unit. Management feels that an ABC system will provide a more accurate allocation of the overhead costs and has collected the following cost pool and cost driver information:Â
Â
Cost Pools
Activity Costs
Cost Drivers
Activity Driver Consumption
Machine setup
$
261,000
Â
 Setup hours
Â
3,000
Â
Materials handling
Â
153,000
Â
 Pounds of materials
Â
17,000
Â
Electric power
Â
38,000
Â
 Kilowatt-hours
Â
38,000
Â
Â
Â
The following cost information pertains to the production of A and B, just two of Hakara's many products:
Â
Â
A
B
Number of units produced
Â
4,000
Â
Â
20,000
Â
Direct materials cost
$
37,000
Â
$
27,000
Â
Direct labor cost
$
41,000
Â
$
40,000
Â
Number of setup hours
Â
200
Â
Â
200
Â
Pounds of materials used
Â
1,000…
Hakara Company has been using direct labor costs as the basis for assigning overhead to its many products. Under this allocation system, product A has been assigned overhead of $24.82 per unit, while product B has been assigned $13.58 per unit. Management feels that an ABC system will provide a more accurate allocation of the overhead costs and has collected the following cost pool and cost driver information:Â
Â
Cost Pools
Activity Costs
Cost Drivers
Activity Driver Consumption
Machine setup
$ 158,000
Setup hours
2,000
Materials handling
112,000
Pounds of materials
16,000
Electric power
25,000
Kilowatt-hours
25,000
Â
The following cost information pertains to the production of A and B, just two of Hakara's many products:
Â
Â
A
B
Number of units produced
5,000
10,000
Direct materials cost
$ 32,000
$ 41,000
Direct labor cost
$ 41,000
$ 38,000
Number of setup hours
100
200
Pounds of materials used
1,000
1,000
Kilowatt-hours
2,000
4,000
Â
Required:
1. Use…
Shalom Company uses three activity pools to apply overhead to its products. Each activity has a
cost driver used to allocate the overhead costs to the product. The activities and related overhead
costs are as follows: product design P40,000; machining P300,000; and material handling
P100,000. The cost drivers and estimated use are as follows:
Activity Cost Pools
Activities
Product design
Number of product changes
Machining
Machine hours
Material handling
Number of set-ups
X
Estimated Use of Cost Driver
Per Activity
Amounts must be in whole numbers. Example: 88,000 or (88,000)
Unit costs be in whole numbers. Example: 88
Format of percentages: 88%
Words must be in capital letters.
10
150,000
100
What is the activity-based overhead rate for material handling?
J
Chapter 4 Solutions
Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making
Ch. 4 - Under what conditions is direct labor a valid...Ch. 4 - What has happened in recent industrial history to...Ch. 4 - In an automated manufacturing environment, what...Ch. 4 - What is generally true about overhead allocation...Ch. 4 - What are the principal differences between...Ch. 4 - What is the formula for computing activity-based...Ch. 4 - What steps are involved in developing an activity-...Ch. 4 - Prob. 8QCh. 4 - What is an activity cost pool?Ch. 4 - Prob. 10Q
Ch. 4 - Prob. 11QCh. 4 - What is the formula for assigning activity cost...Ch. 4 - What are the benefits of activity-based costing?Ch. 4 - What are the limitations of activity-based...Ch. 4 - Under what conditions is ABC generally the...Ch. 4 - Prob. 16QCh. 4 - Prob. 17QCh. 4 - Prob. 18QCh. 4 - Prob. 19QCh. 4 - Prob. 20QCh. 4 - Prob. 4.1BECh. 4 - Finney Inc. has conducted an analysis of overhead...Ch. 4 - Splash Co. identifies the following activities...Ch. 4 - Mason Company manufactures four products in a...Ch. 4 - Morgana Company identifies three activities in its...Ch. 4 - Weisman, Inc. uses activity-based costing as the...Ch. 4 - Spud, Inc. a manufacturer of gourmet potato chips,...Ch. 4 - Prob. 4.8BECh. 4 - Pine and Danner is an architectural firm that is...Ch. 4 - Prob. 4.10BECh. 4 - Fixlt, Inc. operates 20 injection molding machines...Ch. 4 - Prob. 4.12BECh. 4 - Indicate whether the following statements are true...Ch. 4 - Compute activity-based overhead rates and assign...Ch. 4 - Adamson Company manufactures four lines of garden...Ch. 4 - Ready Ride is a trucking company. It provides...Ch. 4 - Saddle Inc. has two types of handbags: standard...Ch. 4 - Ayala Inc. has conducted the following analysis...Ch. 4 - EcoFabrics has budgeted overhead costs of 945,000....Ch. 4 - Altex Inc. manufactures two products: car wheels...Ch. 4 - Perdon Corporation manufactures safeslarge mobile...Ch. 4 - Santana Corporation manufactures snowmobiles in...Ch. 4 - Rojas Vineyards in Oakville, California, produces...Ch. 4 - Wilmington, Inc. manufactures five models of...Ch. 4 - Air United, Inc. manufactures two products:...Ch. 4 - Kragan Clothing Company manufactures its own...Ch. 4 - Health 'R Us, Inc., uses a traditional product...Ch. 4 - Santana Corporation manufactures snowmobiles in...Ch. 4 - William Mendel Sons, Inc. is a small...Ch. 4 - Venus Creations sells window treatments (shades,...Ch. 4 - Snap Prints Company is a small printing and...Ch. 4 - Lasso and Markowitz is a law firm that is...Ch. 4 - Manzeck Company operates a snow-removal service....Ch. 4 - Combat Fire, Inc. manufactures steel cylinders and...Ch. 4 - Prob. 4.2APCh. 4 - Shaker Stairs Co. designs and builds factory-made...Ch. 4 - Prob. 4.4APCh. 4 - Lewis and Stark is a public accounting firm that...Ch. 4 - CURRENT DESIGNS As you teamed in the previous...Ch. 4 - Prob. 4.1BYPCh. 4 - Prob. 4.2BYPCh. 4 - Curtis Rich, the cost accountant for Hi-Power...Ch. 4 - As discussed in the chapter, the principles...
Additional Business Textbook Solutions
Find more solutions based on key concepts
Absorption, variable, and throughput costing. Tesla Motors assembles the fully electric Model S-85 automobile a...
Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis (16th Edition)
(Record inventory transactions in the periodic system) Wexton Technologies began the year with inventory of 560...
Financial Accounting (11th Edition)
DO IT! 10-2 State whether each of the following statements is true or false.
___________1. Convertible bonds ar...
Financial Accounting
5. Which inventory costing method results in the lowest net income during a period of rising inventory costs?
W...
Horngren's Financial & Managerial Accounting, The Financial Chapters (6th Edition)
How does management accounting differ from financial accounting?
Cost Accounting (15th Edition)
Conner Pride reports year-end credit sales in the amount of $567,000 and accounts receivable of $134,000. Conne...
Principles of Accounting Volume 1
Knowledge Booster
Learn more about
Need a deep-dive on the concept behind this application? Look no further. Learn more about this topic, accounting and related others by exploring similar questions and additional content below.Similar questions
- 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?arrow_forwardEvans, 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?arrow_forwardBrees, Inc., a manufacturer of golf carts, has just received an offer from a supplier to provide 2,600 units of a component used in its main product. The component is a track assembly that is currently produced internally. The supplier has offered to sell the track assembly for 66 per unit. Brees is currently using a traditional, unit-based costing system that assigns overhead to jobs on the basis of direct labor hours. The estimated traditional full cost of producing the track assembly is as follows: Prior to making a decision, the companys CEO commissioned a special study to see whether there would be any decrease in the fixed overhead costs. The results of the study revealed the following: 3 setups1,160 each (The setups would be avoided, and total spending could be reduced by 1,160 per setup.) One half-time inspector is needed. The company already uses part-time inspectors hired through a temporary employment agency. The yearly cost of the part-time inspectors for the track assembly operation is 12,300 and could be totally avoided if the part were purchased. Engineering work: 470 hours, 45/hour. (Although the work decreases by 470 hours, the engineer assigned to the track assembly line also spends time on other products, and there would be no reduction in his salary.) 75 fewer material moves at 30 per move. Required: 1. Ignore the special study, and determine whether the track assembly should be produced internally or purchased from the supplier. 2. Now, using the special study data, repeat the analysis. 3. Discuss the qualitative factors that would affect the decision, including strategic implications. 4. After reviewing the special study, the controller made the following remark: This study ignores the additional activity demands that purchasing would cause. For example, although the demand for inspecting the part on the production floor decreases, we may need to inspect the incoming parts in the receiving area. Will we actually save any inspection costs? Is the controller right?arrow_forward
- Splish Brothers is a trucking company. It provides local, short-haul, and long-haul services. It has developed the following three cost pools. Activity Cost Pool  Cost Drivers  EstimatedOverhead  Estimated Use ofCost Driverper Activity Loading and unloading  Number of pieces  $97,130  88,300 Travel  Miles driven  443,250  591,000 Logistics  Hours  82,880  2,960 (a)   Compute the activity-based overhead rates for each pool. (Round answers to 2 decimal places, e.g. 12.75.) Activity Cost Pool  Activity-BasedOverhead Rate  Loading and unloading   per piece Travel   per mile Logistics   per hour Please fill in the table.arrow_forwardP Company produces three types of products- product A, product B and product C. Product A requires 600 machine setups and machine hours used on it were 2,000. Product B requires 900 machine setups and machine hours used on it were 1,000. Product C requires 500 machine setups and machine hours used on it were 2,000. The company has defined an activity cost pool machine setups for which the cost driver is number of machine setups. The total overhead cost assigned to that cost pool was sh.2,000, 000. a) The machine setups overhead assigned to product A:  Select one: A.   Sh. 800,000 B. Sh. 600,000 C. Sh. 400,000 D. None of the abovearrow_forwardP Company produces three types of products- product A, product B and product C. Product A requires 600 machine setups and machine hours used on it were 2,000. Product B requires 900 machine setups and machine hours used on it were 1,000. Product C requires 500 machine setups and machine hours used on it were 2,000. The company has defined an activity cost pool machine setups for which the cost driver is number of machine setups. The total overhead cost assigned to that cost pool was sh.2,000, 000. The machine setups overhead assigned to product B: Select one: A. Sh.900,000 B. Sh. 800,000 C. Sh. 400,000 D. None of the abovearrow_forward
- Bluefield Corp. has two product lines, A and B. Bluefield has identified the following information about its overhead and potential cost drivers:       Total overhead $64,400 Cost drivers  Number of labor hours 2,700 Number of machine hours 40,000   Required:1. Suppose Bluefield Corp. uses a traditional costing system with number of labor hours as the cost driver. Determine the amount of overhead assigned to each product line if Product A requires 62 percent of the labor hours and Product B requires 38 percent. 2. Suppose Bluefield uses a traditional costing system with machine hours as the cost driver. Determine the amount of overhead assigned to each product line if Product A consumes 17,800 machine hours and Product B consumes 22,200.arrow_forwardBluefield Corporation has two product lines, A and B. Bluefield has identified the following information about its overhead and potential cost drivers: Total overhead Cost drivers Number of labor hours Number of machine hours Required: 1. Suppose Bluefield Corporation uses a traditional costing system with number of labor hours as the cost driver. Determine the amount of overhead assigned to each product line if Product A requires 64 percent of the labor hours and Product B requires 36 percent. 2. Suppose Bluefield uses a traditional costing system with machine hours as the cost driver. Determine the amount of overhead assigned to each product line if Product A requires 17,500 machine hours and Product B requires 32,500. Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Required 1 Required 2 $ 79,000 2,200 50,000 Suppose Bluefield Corporation uses a traditional costing system with number of labor hours as the cost driver. Determine the amount of overhead assigned to…arrow_forwardHakara Company has been using direct labor costs as the basis for assigning overhead to its many products. Under this allocation system, product A has been assigned overhead of $26.87 per unit, while product B has been assigned $7.62 per unit. Management feels that an ABC system will provide a more accurate allocation of the overhead costs and has collected the following cost pool and cost driver information: Cost Pools Activity Costs $ 415,000 120,000 44,000 The following cost information pertains to the production of A and B, just two of Hakara's many products: Machine setup Materials handling Electric power Number of units produced Direct materials cost Direct labor cost Number of setup hours Pounds of materials used Kilowatt-hours Product A Product B A 5,000 $ 22,000 $ 39,000 Cost per Unit Cost Drivers Setup hours Pounds of materials Kilowatt-hours 200 2,000 4,000 B 20,000 $ 26,000 $ 37,000 Activity Driver Consumption 5,000 15,000 22,000 200 2,000 4,000 Required: 1. Use…arrow_forward
- Hakara Company has been using direct labor costs as the basis for assigning overhead to its many products. Under this allocation system, product A has been assigned overhead of $31.58 per unit, while product B has been assigned $8.69 per unit. Management feels that an ABC system will provide a more accurate allocation of the overhead costs and has collected the following cost pool and cost driver information: Activity Costs $ 198,000 Activity Driver Consumption 2,000 21,000 168,000 40,000 40,000 The following cost information pertains to the production of A and B, just two of Hakara's many products: Cost Pools Machine setup Materials handling Electric power Number of units produced Direct materials cost Direct labor cost. Number of setup hours Pounds of materials used Kilowatt-hours Product A Product B A 4,000 $ 31,000 $ 33,000 Cost per Unit 200 1,000 4,000 Cost Drivers Setup hours Pounds of materials Kilowatt-hours Required: 1. Use activity-based costing to determine a unit cost for…arrow_forwardNorth Street Corporation manufactures two models of motorized go - carts, a standard and a deluxe model. The following activity and cost information has been compiled: Number of Number of Number of Product Setups Components Direct Labor Hours Standard 16 7 730 Deluxe 34 19 490 Overhead costs $16,000 $24,960 Number of setups and number of components are identified as activity - cost drivers for overhead. Assuming an activity - based costing system is used, what is the total amount of overhead cost assigned to the standard model? (Do not round interim calculations. Round the final answer to the nearest whole dollar.) O A. $17,600 O B. $11,840 OC. $29,120 O D. $20,480arrow_forwardDynaMore is a video console manufacturer. Information about the company’s two products follows: [picture 1] The company incurs $885,800 in overhead per year and has traditionally applied overhead on the basis of direct labor hours.  Each unit of product requires one testing.  Required How much overhead will be allocated to each product using the traditional direct labor hours allocation base?  What overhead cost per unit will be allocated to each product? Assume that DynaMore has identified three activity cost pools.     [picture 2]     Given these activity pools and cost drivers, determine the activity rates. How much overhead should be allocated to each TD-1000 under activity-based costing? Explain the difference in overhead costs per console under traditional costing and activity-based costing.arrow_forward
arrow_back_ios
SEE MORE QUESTIONS
arrow_forward_ios
Recommended textbooks for you
Principles of Accounting Volume 2AccountingISBN:9781947172609Author:OpenStaxPublisher:OpenStax College
Cornerstones of Cost Management (Cornerstones Ser...AccountingISBN:9781305970663Author:Don R. Hansen, Maryanne M. MowenPublisher:Cengage Learning
Principles of Accounting Volume 2
Accounting
ISBN:9781947172609
Author:OpenStax
Publisher:OpenStax College
Cornerstones of Cost Management (Cornerstones Ser...
Accounting
ISBN:9781305970663
Author:Don R. Hansen, Maryanne M. Mowen
Publisher:Cengage Learning
Cost Accounting - Definition, Purpose, Types, How it Works?; Author: WallStreetMojo;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwrwUf8vYEY;License: Standard YouTube License, CC-BY