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

Scholfield 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, $1,191.00 per customer, is the cost of serving a customer for one year.Latif Corporation buys only one of the company's products which Scholfield Enterprises sells for $15.60 per unit. Last year Latif Corporation ordered a total of 1,100 units of this product in 2 orders. To fill the orders, 7 batches were required. The direct materials cost is $7.85 per unit and the direct labor cost is $1.90 per unit. Each unit requires 0.10 direct labor-hours.According to the activity-based costing system, the total cost of the activity "Supporting assembly" for this customer this past year was closest to:

Ploof 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:

Nick Company has two products: A and B. The company uses activity-based costing. The total cost and activity for each of the company's three activity cost pools are as follows: The activity rate under the activity-based costing system for Activity 3 is closest to:

Tomasini 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 supervisory wages and factory supplies cost would NOT be assigned to products using the activity-based costing system?

Jahnel Corporation is conducting a time-driven activity-based costing study in its Tech Support 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 time-driven activity rate for Routing Calls would be closest to:

Mongiello Corporation is conducting a time-driven activity-based costing study in its Customer Support 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 time-driven activity rate for Resolving Issues would be 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 bouquet according to the activity-based costing system? In other words, what would be the overall activity rate for the making bouquets activity cost pool? (Round to the nearest whole cent.)

Riedell Corporation is conducting a time-driven activity-based costing study in its Tech Support Department. The company has provided the following data to aid in that study: Required:Prepare a time-driven activity-based costing Capacity Analysis report for the Tech Support Department that determines the impact on expenses of matching capacity with demand.

Gauch Corporation is conducting a time-driven activity-based costing study in its Customer Support Department. The company has provided the following data to aid in that study: The cost per minute of the resource supplied is $0.40.On the Customer Cost Analysis report in time-driven activity-based costing, the Receiving Calls cost assigned to Customer N would be closest to:

Data concerning three of Kilmon Corporation's activity cost pools appear below: Required:Compute the activity rates for each of the three cost pools. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

Scheuer Corporation uses activity-based costing to compute product margins. In the first stage, the activity-based costing system allocates two overhead accounts--equipment expense and indirect labor--to three activity cost pools--Processing, Supervising, and Other--based on resource consumption. Data to perform these allocations appear below: Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activity Cost Pools: In the second stage, 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, sales and direct cost data are combined with Processing and Supervising costs to determine product margins.Sales and Direct Cost Data: What is the product margin for Product Q1 under activity-based costing?

Code 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 Resolving Queries cost assigned to Customer G would be closest to:

Doell Corporation is conducting a time-driven activity-based costing study in its Tech Support 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 time-driven activity rate for Routing Calls would be closest to:

Meester 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 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: The activity rate for the Order Filling activity cost pool under activity-based costing is closest to:

Aresco Corporation manufactures two products: Product G51B and Product E48X. The company uses a plantwide overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. It is considering implementing an activity-based costing (ABC) system that allocates all of its manufacturing overhead to four cost pools. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Products G51B and E48X. Required:a. Using the plantwide overhead rate, what percentage of the total overhead cost is allocated to Product G51B?b. Using the plantwide overhead rate, what percentage of the total overhead cost is allocated to Product E48X?c. Using theactivity-based costing system, what percentage of the total overhead cost is assigned to Product G51B?d. Using theactivity-based costing system, what percentage of the total overhead cost is assigned to Product E48X?

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. Using the plantwide overhead rate, the percentage of the total overhead cost that is allocated to Product H44W is closest to:

Torello Corporation manufactures two products: Product H95V and Product V93N. The company uses a plantwide overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. It is considering implementing an activity-based costing (ABC) system that allocates all of its manufacturing overhead to four cost pools. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Products H95V and V93N. Using the plantwide overhead rate, how much manufacturing overhead cost would be allocated to Product H95V?

Musich Corporation has an activity-based costing system with three activity cost pools--Machining, Setting Up, and Other. The company's overhead costs, which consist of equipment depreciation and indirect labor, have been allocated to the cost pools already and are provided in the table below. Costs in the Machining 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 appear below: Required: a. Calculate activity rates for each activity cost pool using activity-based costing.b. Determine the amount of overhead cost that would be assigned to each product using activity-based costing.c. Determine the product margins for each product using activity-based costing.

Paparo Corporation has provided the following data from its activity-based costing system: Data concerning the company's product Q79Y appear below: According to the activity-based costing system, the average cost of product Q79Y is closest to:

Riedell Corporation is conducting a time-driven activity-based costing study in its Tech Support Department. The company has provided the following data to aid in that study: Required:Prepare a time-driven activity-based costing Capacity Analysis report for the Tech Support Department that determines the impact on expenses of matching capacity with demand. (Negative amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your intermediate calculations to the nearest whole number.)