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Simplifying the ABC System: Equally Accurate Reduced ABC Systems

Selected activities and other information are provided for Patterson Company for its most recent year of operations.

 

Expected Consumption

Ratios

Activity

       

Driver

       

Quantity

       

Wafer A

       

Wafer B

7.   Inserting dies

       

Number of dies

       

2,000,000

       

0.70

       

0.30

8.  Purchasing materials

       

Number of purchase

   orders

       

2,500

       

0.20

       

0.80

1.  Developing test programs

       

Engineering hours

       

10,000

       

0.25

       

0.75

3.  Testing products

       

Test hours

       

20,000

       

0.60

       

0.40

    ABC assignments

       

       

 

       

       

$1,500,000

       

$1,500,000

    Total overhead cost

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

$3,000,000

Required:

  1. Form reduced system cost pools for activities 7 and 8. Round any division to 9 decimal places in your computations. Round your final answers to the nearest dollar.

Inserting dies cost pool

$

fill in the blank 1

Purchasing cost pool

$

fill in the blank 2

  1. Assign the costs of the reduced system cost pools to Wafer A and Wafer B. Round any division to 9 decimal places in your computations. Round your final answers to the nearest dollar.

Wafer A

$ 1,500,000

fill in the blank 3

Wafer B

$ 1,500,000

fill in the blank 4

  1. What if the two activities were 1 and 3? Repeat Requirements 1 and 2.

Form reduced system cost pools for activities 1 and 3.

Round any division to 9 decimal places in your computations. Round your final answers to the nearest dollar.

Developing test programs cost pool

$ 857,143

fill in the blank 5

Testing products cost pool

$ 2,142,857

fill in the blank 6

Assign the costs of the reduced system cost pools to Wafer A and Wafer B.

Wafer A

$ 1,500,000

fill in the blank 7

Wafer B

$ 1,500,000

fill in the blank 8

Feedback

  1. A key step in the reduction process is expressing each global consumption ratio as a weighted combination of the consumption ratios for each product.
  2. Use the cost pools solutions in Requirement 1.

3. Use 1 and 3 and repeat Requirements.

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