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Activity-Based Environmental Cost Assignments
Pinter Company had the following environmental activities and product information:
1. Environmental activity costs
Activity | Costs |
Design products (to reduce pollution) | $ 129,600 |
Test for contamination | 230,400 |
Treat toxic waste | 720,000 |
Operate pollution control equipment | 576,000 |
2. Driver data
Solvent X | Solvent Y | |
Design hours | 2,900 | 2,500 |
Testing hours | 5,100 | 9,300 |
Pounds of waste | 600 | 17,400 |
Machine hours | 2,900 | 69,100 |
3. Other production data
Solvent X | Solvent Y | |
Nonenvironmental production costs | $1,692,000 | $4,068,000 |
Units produced | 360,000 | 360,000 |
Required:
1. Calculate the activity rates that will be used to assign environmental costs to products.
Design products | $ | per design hour |
Testing | $ | per test hour |
Treating waste | $ | per pound of waste |
Operating equipment | $ | per machine hour |
2. Determine the unit environmental and unit costs of each product using ABC. If required, round your answers to the nearest cent.
Activities | Solvent X | Solvent Y |
Unit environmental cost | $ | $ |
Unit cost | $ | $ |
3. What if the design
costs increased to $219,600 and the cost of toxic waste decreased
to $360,000? Assume that Solvent Y uses 5,000 out of 10,000 design
hours. Also assume that waste is cut by 50 percent and that Solvent
Y is responsible for 6,840 of 7,200 pounds of toxic waste. What is
the new environmental cost for Solvent Y? If required, round your
intermediate calculations and answer to the nearest cent.
$ per unit
1. Calculate the activity rates that will be used to assign environmental costs to products.
Design products | $129600/5400 = 24 | per design hour |
Testing | $230400/14400 = 16 | per test hour |
Treating waste | $720000/18000 = 40 | per pound of waste |
Operating equipment | $576000/72000 = 8 | per machine hour |
2. Determine the unit environmental and unit costs of each product using ABC. If required, round your answers to the nearest cent.
Activities | Solvent X | Solvent Y |
Design products | 69600 | 60000 |
Testing | 81600 | 148800 |
Treating waste | 24000 | 696000 |
Operating equipment | 23200 | 552800 |
Total Cost | 198400 | 1457600 |
Unit environmental cost | 360000 | 360000 |
Unit cost | 0.55 | 4.05 |
3. What if the design costs increased to $219,600 and the cost of toxic waste decreased to $360,000? Assume that Solvent Y uses 5,000 out of 10,000 design hours. Also assume that waste is cut by 50 percent and that Solvent Y is responsible for 6,840 of 7,200 pounds of toxic waste. What is the new environmental cost for Solvent Y? If required, round your intermediate calculations and answer to the nearest cent.
Activities | Solvent Y |
Design products | 109800 |
Testing | 148800 |
Treating waste | 342000 |
Operating equipment | 552800 |
Total Cost | 1153400 |
Unit environmental cost | 360000 |
Unit cost | 3.20 |