In: Accounting
Fogerty Company makes two products—titanium Hubs and Sprockets. Data regarding the two products follow:
| Direct Labor-Hours per Unit |
Annual Production |
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| Hubs | 0.80 | 15,000 | units |
| Sprockets | 0.40 | 45,000 | units |
Additional information about the company follows:
Hubs require $35 in direct materials per unit, and Sprockets require $12.
The direct labor wage rate is $19 per hour.
Hubs require special equipment and are more complex to manufacture than Sprockets.
The ABC system has the following activity cost pools:
| Estimated | Activity | ||||
| Activity Cost Pool (Activity Measure) | Overhead Cost | Hubs | Sprockets | Total | |
| Machine setups (number of setups) | $ | 23,400 | 100 | 80 | 180 |
| Special processing (machine-hours) | $ | 180,000 | 4,500 | 0 | 4,500 |
| General factory (organization-sustaining) | $ | 138,000 | NA | NA | NA |
Required:
1. Compute the activity rate for each activity cost pool.
2. Determine the unit product cost of each product according to the ABC system.
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