Saturday 6 October 2012

Performance Products Corporation makes two products, titanium Rims and Posts. Data




Performance Products Corporation makes two products, titanium Rims and Posts. Data regarding the two products follow:


Direct
Labor-Hours per Unit
Annual
Production
Rims
0.70
15,000
units
Posts
0.30
58,000
units


Additional information about the company follows:

a.
Rims require $33 in direct materials per unit, and Posts require $12.
b.
The direct labor wage rate is $18 per hour.
c.
Rims are more complex to manufacture than Posts, and they require special equipment.
d.
The ABC system has the following activity cost pools:


Estimated
Activity
Activity Cost Pool (and activity measure)
Overhead Cost
Rims
Posts
Total
Machine setups (number of setups)
$
18,810
95
76
171
Special processing (machine-hours)
$
95,000
3,800
0
3,800
General factory (direct labor-hours)
$
362,700
10,500
17,400
27,900


Required:
1.
Compute the activity rate for each activity cost pool. (Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

Activity Cost Pool
Activity Rate
Machine setups
$
per setup
Special processing
$
per MH
General factory
$
per DLH


2.
Determine the unit cost of each product according to the ABC system. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)


Rims
Posts
Direct materials
$
$
Direct labor
Overhead



Unit cost
$
$








Explanation:
1.
Activity rates are computed as follows:

Activity Cost Pool
(a)
Estimated
Overhead
Cost
(b)
Expected Activity
(a) ÷ (b)
Activity Rate
Machine setups
$
18,810
171
setups
$
110
per setup
Special processing
$
95,000
3,800
MHs
$
25
per MH
General factory
$
362,700
27,900
DLHs
$
13
per DLH


2.
Overhead is assigned to the two products as follows:
Rims:

Activity Cost Pool
(a)
Activity Rate
(b)
Activity
(a) × (b)
ABC Cost
Machine setups
$
110
per setup
95
setups
$
10,450

Special processing
$
25
per MH
3,800
MHs

95,000

General factory
$
13
per DLH
10,500
DLHs

136,500










Total





$
241,950














Posts:

Activity Cost Pool
(a)
Activity Rate
(b)
Activity
(a) × (b)
ABC Cost
Machine setups
$
110
per setup
76
setups
$
8,360

Special processing
$
25
per MH
0
MHs

0

General factory
$
13
per DLH
17,400
DLHs

226,200










Total





$
234,560















Rims
Posts
Direct materials
$
33.00
$
12.00
Direct labor:




$18.00 per DLH × .70 DLHs per unit

12.60


$18.00 per DLH × .30 DLHs per unit



5.40
Overhead:




$241,950 ÷ 15,000 units

16.13







$234,560 ÷ 58,000 units



4.04





Unit cost
$
61.73
$
21.44





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