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Corporation makes two types of hiking bootsXactive and Pathbreaker. Data concerning these two product lines appear below:
Xactive
Pathbreaker
Direct materials per unit
$
64.30
$
50.50
Direct labor cost per unit
$
17.70
$
12.50
Direct labor-hours per unit
1.4
DLHs
1
DLHs
Estimated annual production and sales
20,000
units
70,000
units
The company has a conventional costing system in which manufacturing overhead is applied to units based on direct labor-hours. Data concerning manufacturing overhead and direct labor-hours for the upcoming year appear below:
Estimated total manufacturing overhead
$1,911,000
Estimated total direct labor-hours
98,000
DLHs
Required:
1-a. Compute the predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours.
1-b. Using the predetermined overhead rate and other data from the problem, determine the unit product cost of each product.
2. The company is considering replacing its conventional costing system with an activity-based costing system that would assign its manufacturing overhead to the following four activity cost pools:
Estimated Overhead Cost
Expected Activity
Activity Cost Pools and Activity Measures
Xactive
Pathbreaker
Total
Supporting direct labor (direct labor-hours)
$
686,000
28,000
70,000
98,000
Batch setups (setups)
507,500
225
125
350
Product sustaining (number of products)
654,500
1
1
2
General factory (machine-hours)
63,000
2,000
7,000
9,000
Total manufacturing overhead cost
$
1,911,000
Determine the activity rate for each of the four activity cost pools.
3. Using the activity rates and other data from the problem, determine the unit product cost of each product.
Compute the predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Predetermined overhead rate per DLH Using the predetermined overhead rate and other data from the problem, determine the unit product cost of each product. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answers to 2 decimal places.) Xactive Pathbreaker Unit product cost Determine the activity rate for each of the four activity cost pools. (Round your "per DLH" and "per MHR" answers to 2 decimal places.) Activity Rate Activity Cost Pools Supporting direct labor per DLH Batch setups per setup per product Product sustaining General factory per MHR Using the activity rates and other data from the problem, determine the unit product cost of each product. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answers to 2 decimal places.) Xactive Pathbreaker Unit product cost
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