In: Accounting
| Cancico Communications has supplied the following data for use in its ABC system: |
| Overhead Costs | |||
| Wages and salaries | $ | 312,500 | |
| Other overhead costs | 170,000 | ||
| Total overhead costs | $ | 482,500 | |
| Activity Cost Pool | Activity Measure | Total Activity | |
| Direct labour support | Number of direct labour-hours | 5,675 | DLHs |
| Order processing | Number of orders | 500 | orders |
| Customer support | Number of customers | 160 | customers |
| Other | These costs are not allocated to products or customers |
NA | |
| Distribution of Resource Consumption across Activity Cost Pools |
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| Direct Labour Support |
Order Processing |
Customer Support |
Other | Total | |||||||||||
| Wages and salaries | 10 | % | 45 | % | 40 | % | 5 | % | 100 | % | |||||
| Other overhead costs | 15 | % | 20 | % | 20 | % | 45 | % | 100 | % | |||||
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During the year, Cancico Communications completed an order for special telephone equipment for a new customer, HurnTel. This customer did not order any other products during the year. Data concerning that order follow: |
| Selling price | $ | 224 | per unit |
| Units ordered | 215 | units | |
| Direct materials | $ | 196 | per unit |
| Direct labour-hours | 0.6 | DLH per unit | |
| Direct labour rate | $ | 31 | per DLH |
| Required: | |
| 1. |
Prepare a report showing the first-stage allocations of overhead costs to the activity cost pools. |
| 2. |
Compute the activity rates for the activity cost pools. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) |
| 3. |
Prepare a report showing the overhead costs for the order from HurnTel, including customer support costs. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) |
| 4. |
Prepare a report showing the customer margin for HurnTel. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) |