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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