Shaker Stairs Co. designs and builds factory-made premium wooden stairways for homes. The manufactured stairway...

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Shaker Stairs Co. designs and builds factory-made premium wooden stairways for homes. The manufactured stairway components (spindles, risers, hangers, hand rails) permit installation of stairways of varying lengths and widths. All are of white oak wood. Budgeted manufacturing overhead costs for the year 2020 are as follows.

Overhead Cost Pools

Amount

Purchasing

$75,000

Handling materials

82,000

Production (cutting, milling, finishing)

210,000

Setting up machines

95,000

Inspecting

96,000

Inventory control (raw materials and finished goods)

126,000

Utilities

270,000

Total budgeted overhead costs

$954,000

For the last 4 years, Shaker Stairs Co. has been charging overhead to products on the basis of machine hours. For the year 2020, 100,000 machine hours are budgeted. Jeremy Nolan, owner-manager of Shaker Stairs Co., recently directed his accountant, Bill Seagren, to implement the activity-based costing system that he has repeatedly proposed. At Jeremy Nolans request, Bill and the production foreman identify the following cost drivers and their usage for the previously budgeted overhead cost pools.

Activity Cost Pools

Cost Drivers

Estimated Use of Cost Drivers

Purchasing Number of orders 600
Handling materials Number of moves 8,000
Production (cutting, milling, finishing) Direct labor hours 100,000
Setting up machines Number of setups 1,250
Inspecting Number of inspections 6,000
Inventory control (raw materials and finished goods) Number of components 168,000
Utilities Square feet occupied 90,000
Steve Hannon, sales manager, has received an order for 250 stairways from Community Builders, Inc., a large housing development contractor. At Steves request, Bill prepares cost estimates for producing components for 250 stairways so Steve can submit a contract price per stairway to Community Builders. He accumulates the following data for the production of 250 stairways.
Direct materials $103,700
Direct labor $112,100
Machine hours 15,000
Direct labor hours 5,100
Number of purchase orders 60
Number of material moves 800
Number of machine setups 100
Number of inspections 450
Number of components 16,000
Number of square feet occupied 8,000

(a)

Compute the predetermined overhead rate using traditional costing with machine hours as the basis. (Round answer to 2 decimal places, e.g. 12.25.)
Predetermined overhead rate $

per machine hour

What is the manufacturing cost per stairway under traditional costing? (Round answer to 2 decimal places, e.g. 12.25.)
Cost per stairway $
Calculate activity-based overhead rate for each activity. (Round answers to 2 decimal places, e.g. 12.25.)

Activity

Overhead Rate

Purchasing $ per order
Handling materials $ per move
Production $ per D/L hour
Setting up machines $ per setup
Inspecting $ per inspection
Inventory control $ per component
Utilities $ per sq. ft.
Calculate total overhead assigned under ABC.
Total overhead assigned $
What is the manufacturing cost per stairway under the proposed activity-based costing? (Round answer to 2 decimal places, e.g. 12.25.)
Total manufacturing cost per stairway $
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