EBK CORNERSTONES OF COST MANAGEMENT
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Chapter 4, Problem 35P
1.
To determine
Compute the percentage of the total costs that are represented by the three most expensive activities of R Company.
2.
To determine
Compute the total cost and assign the calculated cost to the three most expensive activities and assign the cost for the other activities to the three expensive activities in proportion to their individual activity cost allocate the total costs to the respective products by using the drivers of the selected activities.
3.
To determine
Compute the percentage error using activity based costing as a standard and give reasons for the merits and value of activity based cost simplification.
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1. Using the five most expensive activities, calculate the overhead cost assigned to each prod-uct. Assume that the costs of the other activities are assigned in proportion to the cost of the five activities.2. Calculate the error relative to the fully specified ABC product cost and comment on the outcome.3. What if activities 1, 2, 5, and 8 each had a cost of $650,000 and the remaining activities hada cost of $50,000? Calculate the cost assigned to Wafer A by a fully specified ABC systemand then by an approximately relevant ABC approach. Comment on the implications forthe approximately relevant approach.
The graphs below represent cost behavior patterns that might occur in acompany's cost structure. The vertical axis represents total cost, and thehorizontal axis represents activity output.
Required:For each of the following situations, choose the graph from the group a-1 that best illustrates the cost pattern involved. Also, for each situation,identify the driver that measures activity output.
1. The cost of power when a fixed fee of $500 per month is chargedplus an additional charge of $0.12 per kilowatt-hour used2. Commissions paid to sales representatives. Commissions arepaid at the rate of 5 percent of sales made up to total annual salesof $500,000, and 7 percent of sales above $500,000.3. A part purchased from an outside supplier costs $12 per part for the first 3,000 parts and $10 per part for all parts purchased inexcess of 3,000 units.4. The cost of surgical gloves, which are purchased in incrementsof 100 units (gloves come in boxes of 100 pairs).5. The cost of tuition at a…
Exercise 17-11 (Algo) Computing product cost per unit using plantwide method and activity-based
costing LO P1, P3
Consider the following data for two products of Vigano Manufacturing.
Activity
Budgeted
Cost
Activity Driver
(20 machine
setups)
11,200 (16,000 parts)
(100
inspections)
Machine setup
$ 14,000
Parts handling
Quality inspections
16,800
Total budgeted
overhead
$ 42,000
Unit
Information
Units produced
Direct
materials cost
Product A
Product B
1,400 units
280 units
$ 24 per unit
$ 34 per unit
Direct labor
cost
Direct labor
hours
$ 44 per unit
$ 54 per unit
2 per unit
2.50 per unit
1. Using a plantwide overhead rate based on 3,500 direct labor hours, compute the total product cost per unit for each
product.
2. Consider the following additional information about these two products. If activity-based costing is used to allocate
overhead cost, (a) compute overhead activity rates, (b) allocate overhead cost to Product A and Product B and compute
overhead cost per unit for each, and…
Chapter 4 Solutions
EBK CORNERSTONES OF COST MANAGEMENT
Ch. 4 - What is a predetermined overhead rate? Explain why...Ch. 4 - Describe what is meant by under- and overapplied...Ch. 4 - Explain how a plantwide overhead rate, using a...Ch. 4 - What are non-unit-related overhead activities?...Ch. 4 - What is an overhead consumption ratio?Ch. 4 - Overhead costs are the source of product cost...Ch. 4 - What is activity-based product costing?Ch. 4 - What are the six steps that define the design of...Ch. 4 - Explain how the cost of resources is assigned to...Ch. 4 - Prob. 10DQ
Ch. 4 - Identify and define two types of activity drivers.Ch. 4 - What are unit-level activities? Batch-level...Ch. 4 - Prob. 13DQCh. 4 - Prob. 14DQCh. 4 - Prob. 15DQCh. 4 - Prob. 1CECh. 4 - Warner Company has the following data for the past...Ch. 4 - Lansing. Inc., provided the following data for its...Ch. 4 - Larsen, Inc., produces two types of electronic...Ch. 4 - Roberts Company produces two weed eaters: basic...Ch. 4 - Golding Bank provided the following data about its...Ch. 4 - Golding Bank provided the following data about its...Ch. 4 - Patterson Company produces wafers for integrated...Ch. 4 - Selected activities and other information are...Ch. 4 - Ripley, Inc., costs products using a normal...Ch. 4 - Predetermined Overhead Rate, Application of...Ch. 4 - Craig Company uses a predetermined overhead rate...Ch. 4 - Departmental Overhead Rates Mariposa, Inc.,...Ch. 4 - McCourt Company produces two types of leather...Ch. 4 - Deoro Company has identified the following...Ch. 4 - Prob. 16ECh. 4 - Secondary Activities Refer to the interview in...Ch. 4 - Bob Randall, cost accounting manager for Hemple...Ch. 4 - Prob. 19ECh. 4 - Bob Randall, cost accounting manager for Hemple...Ch. 4 - Silven Company has identified the following...Ch. 4 - Prob. 22ECh. 4 - Prob. 23ECh. 4 - Prob. 24ECh. 4 - Prob. 25ECh. 4 - Assume that the inspection activity has an...Ch. 4 - Consider the information given on two products and...Ch. 4 - Primera Company produces two products and uses a...Ch. 4 - Fisico Company produces exercise bikes. One of its...Ch. 4 - Prob. 30PCh. 4 - Glencoe First National Bank operated for years...Ch. 4 - Autotech Manufacturing is engaged in the...Ch. 4 - The Bienestar Cardiology Clinic has two major...Ch. 4 - Reducir, Inc., produces two different types of...Ch. 4 - Prob. 35PCh. 4 - Escuha Company produces two type of calculators:...
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