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The Blossum Company has an activity –based costing system with three activity cost pools-Design, Marketing, and...

  • The Blossum Company has an activity –based costing system with three activity cost pools-Design, Marketing, and Other. The company’s overhead costs, which consist of equipment depreciation and indirect labor, have been allocated to the cost pools already.
  • Costs in the Design cost pool are assigned to products based on Direct Labor Hours (DLH’s) and the costs in the Marketing cost pool are assigned to products based on the number of cases. Costs in the other cost pool are not assigned to products.
  • Required
  • (1) Calculate activity rates for each activity cost pool using ABC
  • (2) Determine the amount of overhead cost that would be assigned to Product               Tulips using ABC
  • (3) Determine the product margin for Product Tulips using ABC

Activity Based Costing (ABC) Data Sets
           Activity Cost Pools (in dollars)

Category                 Design        Marketing                    Other            Total

Depreciation              $30,000           $8,000                $20,000          $58,000

Indirect Labor              $5,000          $3,000                   $4,000          $12,000

Total                              $35,000        $11,000                $24,000          $70,000                                                                                                                                          



Category                        DLHs           Cases         

Product Tulips              2,500             600      

Product Roses             9,500          2,400                

Total                             12,000          3,000

                                                     Activity Cost Pools (in dollars)

Category                                        Tulips              Roses           

Total Sales                             250,000             280,000             

Total Direct Materials           60,000               45,000

Total Direct Labor                  48,000                98,000                

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