Exam 7: Activity-Based Costing: a Tool to Aid Decision Making

Delauder Enterprises makes a variety of products that it sells to other businesses. The company's activity-based costing system has four activity cost pools for assigning costs to products and customers. Details concerning that activity-based costing system are listed below: The cost of serving customers, $1,608.00 per customer, is the cost of serving a customer for one year. Grennon Corporation buys only one of the company's products. The details of last year's purchases of this product are listed below: According to the activity-based costing system, the total cost of the activity "Processing batches" for this customer this past year was closest to:

Gould Corporation uses the following activity rates from its activity-based costing to assign overhead costs to products: Data concerning two products appear below: How much overhead cost would be assigned to Product K91B using the activity-based costing system? (Round your intermediate calculations and final answers to 2 decimal places.)

Lamorte Corporation is conducting a time-driven activity-based costing study in its Order Fulfillment Department. The company has provided the following data to aid in that study: On the Customer Cost Analysis report in time-driven activity-based costing, the cost per minute of the resource supplied would be closest to:

Flemming Corporation uses activity-based costing to compute product margins. Overhead costs have already been allocated to the company's three activity cost pools--Machining, Order Filling, and Other. The costs in those activity cost pools appear below: 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 data appear below: Finally, sales and direct cost data are combined with Machining and Order Filling costs to determine product margins. What is the product margin for Product U6 under activity-based costing?

Addleman Corporation has an activity-based costing system with three activity cost pools--Processing, Supervising, and Other. In the first stage allocations, costs in the two overhead accounts, equipment expense and indirect labor, are allocated to the three activity cost pools based on resource consumption. Data used in the first stage allocations follow: Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activity Cost Pools: Processing costs are assigned to products using machine-hours (MHs) and Supervising costs are assigned to products using the number of batches. The costs in the Other activity cost pool are not assigned to products. Activity data for the company's two products follow:Activity: Finally, the costs of Processing and Supervising are combined with the following sales and direct cost data to determine product margins.Sales and Direct Cost Data: What is the overhead cost assigned to Product H3 under activity-based costing?

Zwahlen Corporation has an activity-based costing system with three activity cost pools--Processing, Setting Up, and Other. Costs in the Processing cost pool are assigned to products based on machine-hours (MHs) and costs in the Setting Up cost pool are assigned to products based on the number of batches. Costs in the Other cost pool are not assigned to products. Data concerning the two products and the company's costs and activity-based costing system appear below:Activity Cost Pools Required:a. Calculate activity rates for each activity cost pool using activity-based costing. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) b. Determine the amount of overhead cost that would be assigned to each product using activity-based costing. (Round intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.) c. Determine the product margins for each product using activity-based costing. (Round intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)

Weldon Corporation has provided the following data from its activity-based costing accounting system: Distribution of Resource Consumption across Activity Cost Pools: The "Other" activity cost pool consists of the costs of idle capacity and organization-sustaining costs that are not assigned to products.How much indirect factory wages and factory equipment depreciation cost would NOT be assigned to products using the activity-based costing system?

Ben Corporation manufactures two products: Product E05G and Product L64Y. The company uses a plantwide overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. It is considering implementing an activity-based costing (ABC) system that allocates its manufacturing overhead to four cost pools. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Products E05G and L64Y. Using the plantwide overhead rate, the percentage of the total overhead cost that is allocated to Product E05G is closest to:

Foster Florist specializes in large floral bouquets for hotels and other commercial spaces. The company has provided the following data concerning its annual overhead costs and its activity-based costing system: Distribution of resource consumption: The "Other" activity cost pool consists of the costs of idle capacity and organization-sustaining costs.The amount of activity for the year is as follows: What would be the total overhead cost per delivery according to the activity-based costing system? In other words, what would be the overall activity rate for the deliveries activity cost pool? (Round to the nearest whole cent.)

Goertz Corporation has an activity-based costing system with three activity cost pools--Machining, Order Filling, and Other. In the first stage allocations, costs in the two overhead accounts, equipment depreciation and supervisory expense, are allocated to the three activity cost pools based on resource consumption. Data used in the first stage allocations follow: Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activity Cost Pools: 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 data for the company's two products follow:Activity: Finally, the costs of Machining and Order Filling are combined with the following sales and direct cost data to determine product margins.Sales and Direct Cost Data: What is the product margin for Product F7 under activity-based costing?

Roediger Corporation is conducting a time-driven activity-based costing study in its Customer Service Department. The company has provided the following data to aid in that study: On the Capacity Analysis report in time-driven activity-based costing, the "unused capacity in minutes" would be closest to:

Which of the following would be an acceptable measure of activity for a material handling activity cost pool?

Testing a prototype of a new product is an example of a:

Meade Nuptial Bakery makes very elaborate wedding cakes to order. The company has an activity-based costing system with three activity cost pools. The activity rate for the Size-Related activity cost pool is $1.13 per guest. (The greater the number of guests, the larger the cake.) The activity rate for the Complexity-Related cost pool is $43.52 per tier. (Cakes with more tiers are more complex.) Finally, the activity rate for the Order-Related activity cost pool is $61.44 per order. (Each wedding involves one order for a cake.) The activity rates include the costs of raw ingredients such as flour, sugar, eggs, and shortening. The activity rates do not include the costs of purchased decorations such as miniature statues and wedding bells, which are accounted for separately.Data concerning two recent orders appear below: Assuming that all of the costs listed above are avoidable costs in the event that an order is turned down, what amount would the company have to charge for the Ericson wedding cake to just break even?

Roediger Corporation is conducting a time-driven activity-based costing study in its Customer Service Department. The company has provided the following data to aid in that study: On the Customer Cost Analysis report in time-driven activity-based costing, the total cost assigned to Customer P would be closest to:

Bennette Corporation has provided the following data concerning its overhead costs for the coming year: The company has an activity-based costing system with the following three activity cost pools and estimated activity for the coming year: The Other activity cost pool does not have a measure of activity; it is used to accumulate costs of idle capacity and organization-sustaining costs.The distribution of resource consumption across activity cost pools is given below: The activity rate for the Order Processing activity cost pool is closest to:

Elerson Corporation is conducting a time-driven activity-based costing study in its Order Fulfillment Department. The company has provided the following data to aid in that study: On the Capacity Analysis report in time-driven activity-based costing, the "total minutes used to meet demand" would be closest to:

Hails Corporation manufactures two products: Product Q21F and Product H44W. The company uses a plantwide overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. It is considering implementing an activity-based costing (ABC) system that allocates its manufacturing overhead to four cost pools. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Products Q21F and H44W.

Ledonne Corporation is conducting a time-driven activity-based costing study in its Customer Service Department. The company has provided the following data to aid in that study: On the Capacity Analysis report in time-driven activity-based costing, the "potential adjustment in the number of employees" would be closest to:

Meade Nuptial Bakery makes very elaborate wedding cakes to order. The company has an activity-based costing system with three activity cost pools. The activity rate for the Size-Related activity cost pool is $0.96 per guest. (The greater the number of guests, the larger the cake.) The activity rate for the Complexity-Related cost pool is $33.51 per tier. (Cakes with more tiers are more complex.) Finally, the activity rate for the Order-Related activity cost pool is $86.48 per order. (Each wedding involves one order for a cake.) The activity rates include the costs of raw ingredients such as flour, sugar, eggs, and shortening. The activity rates do not include the costs of purchased decorations such as miniature statues and wedding bells, which are accounted for separately.Data concerning two recent orders appear below: Assuming that all of the costs listed above are avoidable costs in the event that an order is turned down, what amount would the company have to charge for the Ericson wedding cake to just break even?