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Activity-Based Product Costing Alabama Manufacturing Company is a diversified ma

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Activity-Based Product Costing

Alabama Manufacturing Company is a diversified manufacturer that manufactures three products (M5, Z4, and I8) in a continuous production process. Senior management has asked the controller to conduct an activity-based costing study. The controller identified the amount of factory overhead required by the critical activities of the organization as follows:

The activity bases identified for each activity are as follows:

The activity-base usage quantities and units produced for the three products were determined from corporate records and are as follows:

Each product requires 0.9 machine hour per unit.

Required:

If required, round all per unit amounts to the nearest cent.

1. Determine the activity rate for each activity.

2. Determine the total and per-unit activity cost for all three products.

3. Why aren’t the activity unit costs equal across all three products since they require the same machine time per unit?

The unit costs are different because the products consume many activities in ratios different from the .

Activity Activity Cost Pool Production $356,400 Setup 132,300 Material handling 65,700 Inspection 151,700 Product Engineering 66,000 Total $772,100

Explanation / Answer

Answer 1. Activity Overhead Cost Driver Quantity Activity Rate Production                                   356,400                                       6,600 mach Hrs                         54.00 per mach hr Setup                                   132,300                                           300 no. of setups                      441.00 per Setup Material Handling                                      65,700                                           900 no. of moves                         73.00 per move Inspection                                   151,700                                       4,100 no. of customer orders                         37.00 per customer Product Engineering                                      66,000                                           500 no. of test runs                      132.00 per test run Total                                   772,100 Answer 2. Assigning Overhead Cost to Product Using ABC Method Activity Based Overhead Rate M5 Z4 I8 Cost Driver Incurred OH Allocated Cost Driver Incurred OH Allocated Cost Driver Incurred OH Allocated Production                                        54.00 per Setup                     2,900 mach Hrs                    156,600         1,850 mach Hrs              99,900             1,850 mach Hrs               99,900 Setup                                      441.00 per move                           80 no. of setups                       35,280            110 no. of setups              48,510                110 no. of setups               48,510 Material Handling                                        73.00 per mach hr                        180 no. of moves                       13,140            270 no. of moves              19,710                450 no. of moves               32,850 Inspection                                        37.00 per customer                        820 no. of customer orders                       30,340         2,260 no. of customer orders              83,620             1,020 no. of customer orders               37,740 Product Engineering                                      132.00 per test run                           50 no. of test runs                         6,600            320 no. of test runs              42,240                130 no. of test runs               17,160 Total Overhead Cost                    241,960            293,980             236,160 Product Total Activity Cost No. of Units Activity Cost per Unit M5                                   241,960                                       7,250                     33.37 Z4                                   293,980                                       4,625                     63.56 I8                                   236,160                                       4,625                     51.06                                   772,100 Answer 3. The unit costs are different because the products consume many activities in ratios different from the machine time per unit.

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