Exercise 3-10 Contrasting ABC and Conventional Product Costs
[LO2, LO3, LO4]
Rocky
Mountain Corporation makes two types of hiking boots—Xactive and the
Pathbreaker. Data concerning these two product lines appear below:
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Xactive
|
Pathbreaker
|
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Direct
materials per unit
|
$
|
65.50
|
$
|
51.70
|
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Direct
labor cost per unit
|
$
|
18.90
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$
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13.70
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Direct
labor-hours per unit
|
1.4
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DLHs
|
1
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DLHs
|
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Estimated
annual production and sales
|
32,000
|
units
|
82,000
|
units
|
||
The
company has a conventional costing system in which manufacturing overhead is
applied to units based on direct labor-hours. Data concerning manufacturing
overhead and direct labor-hours for the upcoming year appear below:
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Estimated
total manufacturing overhead
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$2,624,760
|
|
Estimated
total direct labor-hours
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126,800
|
DLHs
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Required:
|
|
1-a.
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Compute
the predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. (Round the intermediate calculations and final answer
to two decimal places.)
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Predetermined
overhead rate
|
$
per DLH
|
20.70
1-b.
|
Using
the predetermined overhead rate and other data from the problem, determine
the unit product cost of each product. (Round
the intermediate calculations and final answer to two decimal places.)
|
Xactive
|
Pathbreaker
|
|
Unit
product cost
|
$
|
$
|
113.38 86.10
2.
|
The
company is considering replacing its conventional costing system with an
activity-based costing system that would assign its manufacturing overhead to
the following four activity cost pools:
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Estimated Overhead Cost
|
Expected Activity
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Activities and Activity Measures
|
Xactive
|
Pathbreaker
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Total
|
Supporting
direct labor (direct labor-hours)
|
$
|
963,680
|
44,800
|
82,000
|
126,800
|
Batch
setups (setups)
|
963,500
|
285
|
185
|
470
|
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Product
sustaining (number of products)
|
610,940
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
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General
factory (machine-hours)
|
86,640
|
3,200
|
8,200
|
11,400
|
|
Total
manufacturing overhead cost
|
$
|
2,624,760
|
|||
Determine
the activity rate for each of the four activity cost pools. (Round your final answers to 2 decimal places.)
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Activity
Cost Pools
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Activity Rate
|
|
Supporting
direct labor
|
$
|
per
DLH
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Batch setups
|
$
|
per
setup
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Product
sustaining
|
$
|
per
product
|
General
factory
|
$
|
per
MH
|
7.60, 2050, 305470, 7.60
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3.
|
Using
the activity rates and other data from the problem, determine the unit
product cost of each product. (Round the
intermediate calculations and final answer to two decimal places.)
|
Xactive
|
Pathbreaker
|
|
Unit
product cost
|
$
|
$
|
123.60 82.11
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