Friday 14 December 2012

Hugle Corporation's activity-based costing system has three activity cost pools-Machining, Setting Up, and Other. The company's overhead costs have already been allocated to these cost pools as follows:

Hugle Corporation's activity-based costing system has three activity cost pools-Machining, Setting Up, and Other. The company's overhead costs have already been allocated to these cost pools as follows:

     
  Machining $ 72,798   
  Setting up $ 119,978   
  Other $ 23,900   


Costs in the Machining cost pool are assigned to products based on machine-hours (MHs) and costs in the Setting Up cost pool are assigned to products based on the number of batches. Costs in the Other cost pool are not assigned to products. The following table shows the machine-hours and number of batches associated with each of the company's two products:

  MHs Batches
  Product E8 2,580    1,330   
  Product V8 8,450    1,180   
 

  Total 11,030    2,510   
 





Additional data concerning the company's products appears below:

  Product E8 Product V8
  Sales (total) $ 273,000   $ 273,000  
  Direct materials (total) $ 88,300   $ 83,500  
  Direct labor (total) $ 99,400   $ 66,300  


Required:
a.
Calculate activity rates for each activity cost pool using activity-based costing. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

                 Activity Rate
  Machining $   per MH
  Setting up $   per batch


b.
Determine the amount of overhead cost that would be assigned to each product using activity-based costing. (Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

        Product E8       Product V8
  Machining $   $  
  Setting up    
 

  Total $   $  
 





c.
Determine the product margins for each product using activity-based costing. (Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

          Product Margin
  Product E8 $  
  Product V8 $  



Explanation: a.
Computation of activity rates:

Activity Cost Pools Total Cost Total Activity Activity Rate
  Machining $ 72,798     11,030  MHs $ 6.60  per MH
  Setting up $ 119,978     2,510  batches $ 47.80  per batch


b.
Assign overhead costs to products:
Overhead cost for Product E8:

  Activity Rate Activity ABC Cost
  Machining $ 6.60  per MH 2,580  MHs $ 17,028  
  Setting up $ 47.80  per batch 1,330  batches   63,574  
           

  Total           $ 80,602  
           





Overhead cost for Product V8:

  Activity Rate Activity ABC Cost
  Machining $ 6.60  per MH 8,450  MHs $ 55,770  
  Setting up $ 47.80  per batch 1,180  batches   56,404  
           

  Total           $ 112,174  
           





c.
Determine product margins:

  Product E8 Product V8
  Sales     $ 273,000     $ 273,000  
  Direct materials $ 88,300       $ 83,500      
  Direct labor   99,400         66,300      
  Machining   17,028         55,770      
  Setting up   63,574     268,302   56,404     261,974  
 







  Product margin     $ 4,698     $ 11,026  
 













2 comments:

  1. how did u get ur answers given in a. thanks

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