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Stockin Company produces Tablets and Books. Total overhead costs traditionally have been allocated on the basis...

Stockin Company produces Tablets and Books. Total overhead costs traditionally have been allocated on the basis of direct labor hours. After implementing activity-based costing, managers determined the following cost pools and cost drivers. They also decided that general costs should no longer be allocated to products.

Activity Pool Department Costs Cost driver
Binding $266,825.00 Number of units
Printing 800,084.25 Machine hours
Product design 175,104.00 Change orders
General 757,486.75 None
Total overhead costs $1,999,500.00


Other information is as follows:

Tablets Books
Units 82,100 20,525
Direct materials cost per unit $4.00 $12.00
Direct labor cost per unit $5.00 $10.00
Direct labor hours 31,000 15,500
Machine hours 159,300 119,475
Change orders 1,824 3,648

(a)

Determine the unit product cost for Tablets using the traditional costing system.

(b)

Determine the unit product cost for Tablets using the activity-based costing system.

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a) Traditional Costing System for allocating overhead:
Calculation of overhead recovery rate =Total Overhead Cost/Total Direct Labour Hours
=1999500/(31000+15500)
=1999500/46500
Overhead recovery rate =43
Product Cost Sheet:
Particulars Tablets Books
a) Direct Material Cost per unit 4 12
b) Direct Labour Cost per unit 5 10
c) Direct Labour Hours per unit 0.3776 0.7552
(31000/82100) (15500/20525)
d) Overhead Cost @ 43 per labour hour 16.24 32.47
(0.3776*43) (0.7552*43)
Cost per unit(a+b+d) 25.24 54.47
b) Activity Based Costing system for allocating overhead:
Product Cost Sheet:
Particulars Cost Driver Tablets Books
a)Units 82100 20525
b) Total Direct Material Cost 328400 246300
(82100*4) (20525*12)
c)Total Direct Labour Cost 410500 205250
(82100*5) (20525*10)
d) Binding Cost Number of Units 213460 53365
(266825/102625*82100) (266825/102625*20525)
e) Printing Cost Machine Hours 457191 342893.25
(800084.25/278775*159300) (800084.25/278775*119475)
f) Product Design Cost Change Orders 58368 116736
(175104/5472*1824) (175104/5472*3648)
g) Total Cost(b+c+d+e+f) 1467919 964544.25
h) Cost per unit(g/a)                                      17.88                                      46.99

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