In: Accounting
Pinter Company had the following environmental activities and product information:
1. Environmental activity costs
Activity | Costs |
Design products (to reduce pollution) | $ 118,800 |
Test for contamination | 211,200 |
Treat toxic waste | 660,000 |
Operate pollution control equipment | 528,000 |
2. Driver data
Solvent X | Solvent Y | |
Design hours | 2,600 | 4,000 |
Testing hours | 4,700 | 12,900 |
Pounds of waste | 500 | 21,500 |
Machine hours | 2,600 | 85,400 |
3. Other production data
Solvent X | Solvent Y | |
Nonenvironmental production costs | $3,080,000 | $6,028,000 |
Units produced | 440,000 | 440,000 |
Required:
1. Calculate the activity rates that will be used to assign environmental costs to products.
Design products | $ | per design hour |
Testing | $ | per test hour |
Treating waste | $ | per pound of waste |
Operating equipment | $ | per machine hour |
2. Determine the unit environmental and unit costs of each product using ABC. If required, round your answers to the nearest cent.
Activities | Solvent X | Solvent Y |
Unit environmental cost | $ | $ |
Unit cost | $ | $ |
3. What if the design
costs increased to $208,800 and the cost of toxic waste decreased
to $330,000? Assume that Solvent Y uses 8,000 out of 16,000 design
hours. Also assume that waste is cut by 50 percent and that Solvent
Y is responsible for 6,270 of 6,600 pounds of toxic waste. What is
the new environmental cost for Solvent Y? If required, round your
intermediate calculations and answer to the nearest cent.
$ per unit
1.Activity rates
Activity costs | Total costs | Total activity | per activity rate |
Designing costs | 118800 | 6600 | $18 per design hr |
Testing costs | 211200 | 17600 | $12 per testing hr |
Treating waste | 660000 | 22000 | $30 per pound of waste |
Operating equipment | 528000 | 88000 | $6 per machine hr |
2. Unit environmental costs and unit costs
Solvent X
Designing : 18*2600=46800
Testing : 12*4700=56400
Treating waste: 30*500=15000
Operating: 6*2600=15600
Total costs = total environmental costs+ non environmental costs=133800+3080000
=3213800
Total units =440000
Unit environmental costs=$0. 30 per unit
Unit cost=$7. 30 per unit
=$7 per unit
Solvent Y
Designing :18*4000=72000
Testing :12*12900=154800
Treating waste :30*21500=645000
Operating :6*85400=512400
Total costs =Total environmental costs +non environmental costs=1384200+6028000=7412200
Total units =440000
Cost per unit=$16. 85 =$17
Environmental cost per unit =$3. 15 per unit
3.
New environmental cost for Solvent Y
Designing 208800
Testing :154800
Treating waste: 330000
Operating equipment :512400
New Environmental costs: 1206000
Total units:4400000
Environmental cost per unit: $2.75 per unit
I.e $3 per unit for Y
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