Fogle
Florist specializes in large floral bouquets for hotels and other
commercial spaces. The company has provided the following data
concerning its annual overhead costs and its activity based costing
system:
Overhead costs: | |
Wages and salaries | $128,000 |
Other expenses | 64,000 |
Total |
$192,000
|
Distribution of resource consumption: |
| Activity Cost Pools | |
| Making Bouquets | Delivery | Other | Total |
Wages and salaries | 60% | 30% | 10% | 100% |
Other expenses | 45% | 50% | 5% | 100% |
The "Other" activity cost pool consists of the costs of idle capacity and organization-sustaining costs.
|
The amount of activity for the year is as follows: |
Activity Cost Pool | Activity |
Making bouquets | 57,390 bouquets |
Delivery | 12,500 deliveries |
What
would be the total overhead cost per delivery according to the activity
based costing system? In other words, what would be the overall
activity rate for the deliveries activity cost pool?
|
Allocations to the Delivery activity cost pool: |
Wages and salaries (30% × $128,000) | $38,400 |
Other expenses (50% × $64,000) | 32,000 |
Total cost |
$70,400
|
Overhead cost per delivery = Total cost ÷ Number of deliveries |
= $70,400 ÷ 12,500 deliveries |
= $5.63 per delivery |
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