Exam 11: Cost Allocation and Activity-Based Costing

Use of a plantwide factory overhead rate does not distort product costs when there are differences in the factory overhead rates across different production departments.

Activity rates are determined by

Use of a plantwide factory overhead rate does not distort product costs only when products require different ratios of allocation-base usage in each production department.

Activity cost pools are assigned to products, using factory overhead rates for each activity.

Challenger Factory produces two similar products - regular widgets and deluxe widgets. The total plant overhead budget is $675,000 with 300,000 estimated direct labor hours. It is further estimated that deluxe widget production will need 3 direct labor hours for each unit and regular widget production will require 2 direct labor hours for each unit. Using the single plantwide factory overhead rate with an allocation base of direct labor hours, how much factory overhead will be allocated to the regular widget production if budgeted production for the period is 75,000 units and actual production for the period is 72,000 units?

A plantwide factory overhead rate is computed by dividing total budgeted factory overhead costs by the plantwide allocation base.

The Camper's Edge Factory produces two products - canopies and tents. It has two separate departments - cutting and sewing. The budget is $350,000 for the cutting department and $400,000 for the sewing department. Each canopy requires 2 hours of cutting and 1 hour of sewing. Each tent requires 1 hour of cutting and 6 hours of sewing. The budget estimates that 20,000 canopies and 10,000 tents will be manufactured during the year. Determine (a) the total number of budgeted direct labor hours for the year in each department, (b) the departmental factory overhead rates for both departments, and (c) the factory overhead allocated per unit each product using the department factory overhead allocation rates using direct labor hours as the base.

The Valhalla Company manufactures small lamps and desk lamps. The following shows the activities per product:

Zorn Co. budgeted $600,000 of factory overhead cost for the coming year. Its plantwide allocation base, machine hours, is budgeted at 100,000 hours. Budgeted units to be produced are 200,000 units. Zorn's plantwide factory overhead rate is $6.00 per unit.

Tibet Company sells glasses, fine china, and everyday dinnerware. They use activity-based costing to determine the cost of the shipping and handling activity. The shipping and handling activity has an activity rate of $7 per pound. A box of glasses weighs 2 lbs, the box of china weighs 4 lbs, and a box of everyday dinnerware weighs 6 lbs. (a) Determine the shipping and handling activity for each product and (b) determine the total shipping and receiving costs for the china if 3,500 boxes are shipped.

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 rate per production order for scheduling.

The Kaumajet Factory produces two products - table lamps and desk lamps. It has two separate departments - finishing and production. The overhead budget for the finishing department is $550,000, using 500,000 direct labor hours. The overhead budget for the production department is $400,000 using 80,000 direct labor hours. If the budget estimates that a desk lamp will require 1 hours of finishing and 2 hours of production, what is the total amount of factory overhead to be allocated to desk lamps using the multiple production department factory overhead rate method with an allocation base of direct labor hours, if 26,000 units are produced?

The Cunningham Factory has determined that its budgeted factory overhead budget for the year is $6,750,000 and budgeted direct labor hours are 5,000,000. If the actual direct labors for the period are 175,000 how much overhead would be allocated to the period?

A single plantwide overhead rate method is very expensive to apply.

Scoresby Co. uses 3 machine hours and 1 direct labor hour to produce Product X. It uses 4 machine hours and 8 direct labor hours to produce Product Y. Scoresby's Assembly and Finishing Departments have factory overhead rates of $240 per machine hour and $160 per direct labor hour, respectively. How much overhead cost will be charged to the two products?

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.

Everest Co. uses a plantwide factory overhead rate based on direct labor hours. Overhead costs would be overcharged to which of the following departments?

Which of the following are the two most common allocation bases for factory overhead?

If the budgeted factory overhead cost is $460,000, the budgeted direct labor hours is 80,000, and the actual direct labor hours is 6,700 for the month, the factory overhead rate for the month is $68.65 (if the allocation is based on direct labor hours).

All of the following can be used as an allocation base for calculating factory overhead rates except: