Sunday 7 October 2012

Costs in the Machining cost pool are assigned to products based on machine-hours (MHs)


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
$


No comments:

Post a Comment