Rogers Printing Ltd

Essay

Rogers Printing Ltd. has contracts to complete weekly supplements required by its' customers. For the current year, manufacturing overhead cost estimates total $580,000 for an annual production capacity of 14,500,000 pages.
Rogers Printing decided to evaluate the use of additional cost pools. After analyzing manufacturing overhead costs, it was determined that number of design changes, setups, and inspections are the primary manufacturing overhead cost drivers. The following information was gathered during the analysis:

Pages are a direct cost at $0.02 per page. Design costs per job average $1,500 and $1,700 for Jackson Sports and Beaufort Travel, respectively. Rogers Printing sets prices at $0.11 per page plus 120% of design costs.
Assume that all costs are variable.
Required:
Prepare income statements in contribution margin format for both customers using:
a. Traditional (simple) costing with overhead applied on a page capacity basis
b. Activity-based costing
c. How much a page should Jackson Sports be charged if Rogers Printing wants to breakeven on this customer? Assume that manufacturing overhead costs are fixed and that they are allocated to customers based on pages sold as a percentage of production capacity; and, that design costs are also fixed.