In: Accounting
CR Black has supplied the following data for use in its activity based costing system:
Overhead Costs:
Wages and Salaries $ 700,000 Other Overhead Costs $ 400,000 Total Overhead Costs $1,100,000
Activity Cost Pool:
Direct Labor Support
Order Processing
Customer Support
Other
Activity Measure:
Number of direct labor-hours
Number of orders
Number of Customers
This is an organizationSustaining activity
Total Activity:
10,000 DLHs
500 Orders
100 customers
Not applicable
Selling Price $700 per unit Units Ordered 100 units Direct materials $350 per unit Direct labor-hours (DLH) 0.5 DLH per unit Direct labor rate $25 per DLH
Distribution of Resource Consumption across Activities
Direct Labor Support |
Order processing | Costomer Support | Other | Total | |
Wages and Salaries | 30% | 35% | 25% | 10% | 100% |
Other Overhead Costs | 25% | 15% | 20% | 40% | 100% |
During the year, CR Black completed an order for a special optical switch for a new customer, Gucwa Telecom. The customer did not order any other products during the year. Data concerning that order follow:
Data concerning the Calandra Telecom Order
Selling Price | $700 per unit |
Units Ordered | 100 units |
Direct Materials | $350 per unit |
Direct Labor-hours (DLH) | 0.5 DLH |
Direct labor rate | $25 per DLH |
5) Prepare a report showing the overhead costs for the order from Calandra, including customer support costs, and prepare a report showing the customer margin for Calandra Telecom.
Please show all work!!
3) Prepare a report showing the first-stage allocation of overhead costs to each activity cost pool, and compute the activity rate for each activity cost pool
Direct labor support | Order processing | Customer support | Other | Total | |
Wages and salaries | 210000 | 245000 | 175000 | 70000 | 700000 |
Other overhead cost | 100000 | 60000 | 80000 | 160000 | 400000 |
Total | 310000 | 305000 | 255000 | 230000 | 1100000 |
Calculate activity rate
Estimated overhead | Estimated activity | Activity rate | |
Direct labor support | 310000 | 10000 DLH | 31 per DLH |
Order processing | 305000 | 500 Order | 610 per order |
Customer support | 255000 | 100 Customer | 2550 per customer |
5) Calculate overhead cost
Direct labor support (100*.5*31) | 1550 |
Order processing | 610 |
Customer support | 2550 |
Total overhead cost | 4710 |
calculate customer margin
Sales | 70000 |
Direct material (350*100) | 35000 |
Direct labor (100*.5*25) | 1250 |
Overhead cost | 4710 |
Customer margin | 29040 |