Problem 6-58 (Static) Predetermined Rates and Product Profitability: Two Stage Cost Allocation (LO 6-3, 4, 5) Social Media, Inc. (SMI) has two services for users. Toot!, which connects tutors with students who are looking for tutoring services, and TiX, which can be used to buy, sell, or exchange event tickets. For the following year, SMI expects the following results.       Toot!   TiX   Total Users   9,000       15,000       24,000     Revenues $ 1,200,000     $ 800,000     $ 2,000,000     Engineering hours   10,000       6,000       16,000     Engineering cost $ 240,000     $ 360,000     $ 600,000     Administrative costs                 $ 480,000         The company is considering using a two-stage cost allocation system and wants to assess the effects on reported product profits.   The company is considering using Engineering Hours and Users as the allocation base. Additional information follows.       Toot!   TiX   Total Engineering hours   10,000       6,000       16,000   Users   9,000       15,000       24,000   Engineering-hour related administrative cost                 $ 120,000   User-related administrative cost                 $ 360,000       SMI thought that maybe there should be three types of administrative costs. They felt that some of the costs in the User-related pool were more related to revenue than to users. Specifically, they revised their breakdown of administrative costs as follows.     Engineering-hour related administrative cost $ 120,000   User-related administrative cost   210,000   Revenue-related administrative cost   150,000   Total administrative cost $ 480,000       Required: a. Compute the predetermined overhead rate used to apply the three administrative costs pools to the two services assuming SMI uses the the proposed two-stage cost system to allocate administrative costs. b. Based on the rates computed in requirement (a), what is the profit for each service?

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Problem 6-58 (Static) Predetermined Rates and Product Profitability: Two Stage Cost Allocation (LO 6-3, 4, 5)

Social Media, Inc. (SMI) has two services for users. Toot!, which connects tutors with students who are looking for tutoring services, and TiX, which can be used to buy, sell, or exchange event tickets. For the following year, SMI expects the following results.

 

    Toot!   TiX   Total
Users   9,000       15,000       24,000    
Revenues $ 1,200,000     $ 800,000     $ 2,000,000    
Engineering hours   10,000       6,000       16,000    
Engineering cost $ 240,000     $ 360,000     $ 600,000    
Administrative costs                 $ 480,000    
 

 

The company is considering using a two-stage cost allocation system and wants to assess the effects on reported product profits.

 

The company is considering using Engineering Hours and Users as the allocation base. Additional information follows.

 

    Toot!   TiX   Total
Engineering hours   10,000       6,000       16,000  
Users   9,000       15,000       24,000  
Engineering-hour related administrative cost                 $ 120,000  
User-related administrative cost                 $ 360,000  
 

 

SMI thought that maybe there should be three types of administrative costs. They felt that some of the costs in the User-related pool were more related to revenue than to users. Specifically, they revised their breakdown of administrative costs as follows.

 

 
Engineering-hour related administrative cost $ 120,000  
User-related administrative cost   210,000  
Revenue-related administrative cost   150,000  
Total administrative cost $ 480,000  
 

 

Required:

a. Compute the predetermined overhead rate used to apply the three administrative costs pools to the two services assuming SMI uses the the proposed two-stage cost system to allocate administrative costs.

b. Based on the rates computed in requirement (a), what is the profit for each service?

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