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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