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Activity-based costing for a service company
Crosswinds Hospital plans to use activity-based costing to assign hospital indirect costs to the care of patients. The hospital has identified the following activities and activity rates for the hospital indirect costs:
Activity | Activity Rate | ||
Room and meals | $260 | per day | |
Radiology | $210 | per image | |
Pharmacy | $30 | per physician order | |
Chemistry lab | $110 | per test | |
Operating room | $940 | per operating room hour |
The activity usage information associated with the two patients is as follows:
Abel Putin | Cheryl Umit | |||
Number of days | 8 | days | 4 | days |
Number of images | 6 | images | 5 | images |
Number of physician orders | 6 | orders | 2 | orders |
Number of tests | 7 | tests | 4 | tests |
Number of operating room hours | 5 | hours | 3 | hours |
This information has been collected in the Microsoft Excel Online file. Open the spreadsheet, perform the required analysis, and input your answers in the questions below.
Open spreadsheet
Determine the activity cost associated with each patient.
Abel Putin | $ |
Cheryl Umit | $ |
Why is the total activity cost different for the two patients?
apparently had a different condition that required more extensive treatment. Thus, the activity cost to is more than the activity cost of the other patient.
Activity Based Costing | |||||||
Answer | |||||||
1 | Activity Cost Associated with | ||||||
Activity | Activity Driver | Rate (A) | Abel Putin ($) | Cheril Umit ($) | |||
(a) | Cost (A*a) | (b) | Cost (A*b) | ||||
Room and Maeals | Per day | 260 | 8 | 2080 | 4 | 1040 | |
Radiology | Per Image | 210 | 6 | 1260 | 5 | 1050 | |
Pharmacy | Per physician Order | 30 | 6 | 180 | 2 | 60 | |
Chemistry Lab | Per Tests | 110 | 7 | 770 | 4 | 440 | |
Operating Room | Per operating room Hour | 940 | 5 | 4700 | 3 | 2820 | |
Total Allocated Cost as per Activity based costing | 8990 | 5410 | |||||
2 | Why Cost is different for both patients.? | ||||||
Cost drivers for each patients are different so that, the total cost will be different |