Exam 26: Cost Allocation and Activity-Based Costing

Estimated activity-base usage quantities are the total activity-base quantities related to each product.

Use of a plantwide factory overhead rate assumes that the activities causing overhead costs are different across different departments and products.

Which of the following does not support managerial decisions involving accurate product costing?

Blue Ridge Marketing Inc. manufactures two products, A and B. Presently, the company uses a single plantwide factory overhead rate for allocating overhead to products. However, management is considering moving to a multiple department rate system for allocating overhead. The following table presents information about estimated overhead and direct labor hours. Determine the overhead from both production departments allocated to each unit of Product B if the company uses a multiple department rate system.

The Aleutian Company produces two products, Rings and Dings. They are manufactured in two departments-fabrication and assembly. Data for the products and departments are listed below. All of the machine hours take place in the Fabrication department, which has an estimated overhead of $90,000. All of the labor hours take place in the Assembly department, which has an estimated total overhead of $105,000. The Aleutian Company uses a departmental overhead rates. The fabrication department uses machine hours for an allocation base, and the assembly department uses labor hours. What is the fabrication department overhead rate per machine hour?

Ratchford Clocks manufactures alarm clocks and wall clocks and allocates overhead based on direct labor hour. The production process is set up in three departments: assembly, finishing, and calibrating. The following is information regarding the direct labor used to produce one unit of the two clocks: The budget includes the following factory overhead by department: Ratchford Clocks is planning to manufacture 50,000 alarm clocks and 10,000 wall clocks.

Zorn Co. budgeted $300,000 of factory overhead cost for the coming year. Its plantwide allocation base, machine hours, is budgeted at 50,000 hours. Budgeted units to be produced are 100,000 units. Zorn's plantwide factory overhead rate is $6.00 per machine hour.

The Skagit Company manufactures Hooks and Nooks. The following shows the activities per product and total activity information: Calculate the total factory overhead to be charged to each unit of Hooks.

Pinacle Corp. budgeted $350,000 of overhead cost for 2012. Actual overhead costs for the year were $325,000. Pinacle's plantwide allocation base, machine hours, was budgeted at 50,000 hours. Actual machine hours were 40,000. A total of 100,000 units was budgeted to be produced and 98,000 units were actually produced. Pinacle's plantwide factory overhead rate for 2012 is:

Bugaboo Co. manufactures three types of cookies: Fluffs, Crinkles, and Snaps. The production process is relatively simple, and factory overhead costs are allocated to products using a single plantwide factory rate based on direct labor hours. Information for the month of May, Bugaboo's first month of operations, follows: Bugaboo has budgeted direct labor costs for May at $8.50 per hour. Budgeted direct materials costs for May are: Fluffs, $0.75/unit; Crinkles $0.40/unit; and Snaps $0.30/unit. Bugaboo's budgeted overhead costs for May are: Assume that Bugaboo sells all the boxes it produces in May.

Panamint Systems Corporation is estimating activity costs associated with producing disk drives, tapes drives, and wire drives. The indirect labor can be traced to four separate activity pools. The budgeted activity cost and activity base data by product are provided below. Determine the activity-based cost for each disk drive unit.