Comparing ABC and Plantwide Overhead Cost Assignments
Wellington Chocolate Company uses activity-based costing (ABC). The controller identified two activities and their budgeted costs:
Setting up equipment is based on setup hours, and other overhead is based on oven hours.
Wellington produces two products, Fudge and Cookies. Information on each product is as follows:
Required:
(Note: Round answers to two decimal places.)
1.
Compute the activity rate for setting equipment and other overhead.
Activity Based Costing (ABC):
Activity based costing is an apportionment of costs that first considers the activity drivers that helps in the allocation of costs to various activities and then allocates costs to different cost objects by using the drivers.
a.
Use the following formula to calculate activity rate for setting equipment:
Substitute $432,000 for set up costs and $8,000 for set up costs in the above formulae.
Therefore, the activity rate of setting equipment is $54 per set up hour.
b
2.
Calculate the total overhead cost which is assigned to fudge with the help of ABC approach.
3.
Calculate the unit overhead cost which is assigned to fudge with the help of ABC approach.
4.
Compute the plant wide overhead rate by using oven hours.
5.
Compute the total overhead costs which are assigned to fudge with the help of plant wide overhead rate.
6.
Discuss the reason for difference in the values of total overhead by using ABC system and by using plant wide overhead rate.
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