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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.
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 |