Question

Doede Corporation uses activity-based costing to compute product margins. In the first stage, the activity-based costing system allocates two overhead accounts--equipment depreciation and supervisory expense--to three activity cost pools--Machining, Order Filling, and Other--based on resource consumption. Data to perform these allocations appear below:

Overhead costs:

Equipment depreciation	$	73,000
Supervisory expense	$	10,900

Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activity Cost Pools:

	Activity Cost Pools
	Machining	Order Filling		Other
Equipment depreciation	0.60	0.30		0.10
Supervisory expense	0.60	0.20		0.20

In the second stage, Machining costs are assigned to products using machine-hours (MHs) and Order Filling costs are assigned to products using the number of orders. The costs in the Other activity cost pool are not assigned to products.

Activity:

	MHs (Machining)	Orders (Order Filling)
Product W1	5,720	114
Product M0	16,500	980
Total	22,220	1,094

Finally, sales and direct cost data are combined with Machining and Order Filling costs to determine product margins.

Sales and Direct Cost Data:

	Product W1		Product M0
Sales (total)	$	78,500	$	63,600
Direct materials (total)	$	34,700	$	23,500
Direct labor (total)	$	21,600	$	34,800

What is the overhead cost assigned to Product W1 under activity-based costing?

Multiple Choice

• $2,509

• $15,494

• $50,340

• $12,984

Answer 1

Correct answer-----------15,494

Working

Calculation of Activity rates
Activity Cost Pool	Activity driver	Overhead Cost (A)	Expected Activity (B)	Activity rate (A/B)
Machining	Number of MHs	$ 50,340*	22220	$               2.27	Per MHs
Order filling	Number of Orders	$ 24,080**	1094	$             22.01	Per Orders

*(73000*0.6)+(10900*0.6)

**(73000*0.3)+(10900*0.2)

Cost assigned to Product W1
Activity name	Activity Rates	Activity	ABC Cost
	(A)	(B)	(A x B)
Machining	$             2.27	5,720.00	$ 12,984.40
Order filling	$           22.01	114.00	$ 2,509.14
Total Overheads assigned			$ 15,494