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College Supply Company (CSC) makes three types of drinking glasses: short, medium, and tall. It presently applies overhead using a predetermined rate based on direct labor-hours. A group of company employees recommended that CSC switch to activity-based costing and identified the following activities, cost drivers, estimated costs, and estimated cost driver units for Year 5 for each activity center.
Activity
Recommended Cost Driver
Estimated Cost
Estimated Cost Driver Units
Setting up production
Number of production runs
$
22,400
80
runs
Processing orders
Number of orders
46,800
180
orders
Handling materials
Pounds of materials
18,000
9,000
pounds
Using machines
Machine-hours
40,000
8,000
hours
Providing quality management
Number of inspections
48,000
40
inspections
Packing and shipping
Units shipped
38,000
19,000
units
$
213,200
In addition, management estimated 2,000 direct labor-hours for year 5.
Assume that the following cost driver volumes occurred in February, year 5:
Short
Medium
Tall
Number of units produced
900
500
400
Direct materials costs
$
4,000
$
2,500
$
2,000
Direct labor-hours
110
130
120
Number of orders
9
7
3
Number of production runs
2
5
8
Pounds of material
400
900
200
Machine-hours
500
200
400
Number of inspections
1
2
2
Units shipped
900
500
300
Direct labor costs were $20 per hour.
Required:
a. Compute a predetermined overhead rate for year 5 for each cost driver recommended by the employees. Also compute a predetermined rate using direct labor-hours as the allocation base. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
b. Compute the production costs for each product for February using direct labor-hours as the allocation base and the predetermined rate computed in requirement a. (Do not round intermediate calculations.)
c. Compute the production costs for each product for February using the cost drivers recommended by the employees and the predetermined rates computed in requirement a.(Note: Do not assume that total overhead applied to products in February will be the same for activity-based costing as it was for the labor-hour-based allocation.) (Do not round intermediate calculations.)
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