PA4-1 Assigning Costs Using Traditional System, ABC System [LO 4-1, 4-3, 4-4, 4-6]
Hazelnut Corp. manufactures lawn ornaments. It currently has two product lines, the basic and the luxury. Hazelnut has a total of $160,188 in overhead.
The company has identified the following information about its
overhead activity cost pools and the two product lines:
Activity Cost Pools | Cost Driver |
Cost Assigned to Pool |
Quantity/Amount Consumed by Basic |
Quantity/Amount Consumed by Luxury |
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Materials handling | Number of moves | $ | 4,108 | 18 moves | 61 moves | ||
Quality control | Number of inspections | $ | 31,280 | 240 inspections | 100 inspections | ||
Machine maintenance | Number of machine hours | $ | 124,800 | 5,400 machine hours | 4,200 machine hours | ||
Required:
1. Suppose Hazelnut used a traditional costing system with
machine hours as the cost driver. Determine the amount of overhead
assigned to each product line. (Do not round intermediate
calculations and round your final answers to the nearest whole
dollar amount.)
Basic Model | Overhead Assigned | |
Luxury Model | Overhead Assigned |
2. Calculate the activity rates for each cost pool
in Hazelnut’s ABC system.
3. Calculate the amount of overhead that Hazelnut
will assign to the basic line if it uses an ABC system.
4. Determine the amount of overhead Hazelnut will
assign to the luxury line if it uses an ABC system.
Req 1. | ||||||
Estimated overheads | 160188 | |||||
Divide: Total machine hours | 9600 | |||||
OH rate per MH | 16.68625 | |||||
OH assigned: | ||||||
Basic (5400 MH @ 16.68625) | 90105.75 | |||||
Luxury (4200 Mh @ 16.68625) | 70082.25 | |||||
req 2: | ||||||
STATEMENT SHOWING ACTIVITY RATE OF ACTIVITY POOL | ||||||
Activity | Total | Expected | Activity | |||
ACTIVITY COST POOL | Measures | Overheads | Activity | Rate | ||
Material Handling | Moves | 4,108 | 79 | 52.00 | ||
Quality Control | Inspetions | 31,280 | 340 | 92.00 | ||
Machine Maintenance | MH | 124,800 | 9,600 | 13.00 | ||
Req 3 and 4: | ||||||
Activity | Rate | Basic | Luxury | |||
Activity | Oh | Activity | Oh | |||
Material Handling | 52 | 18 | 936 | 61 | 3172 | |
Quality Control | 92 | 240 | 22080 | 100 | 9200 | |
Machine Maintenance | 13 | 5400 | 70200 | 4200 | 54600 | |
Total OH | 93216 | 66972 | ||||
OH allocated to basic: $ 93216 | ||||||
Oh allocated to Luxury: $ 66972 |
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