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Krypton Ltd.’s budgeted information relating to the manufacture of two of its pr

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Question

Krypton Ltd.’s budgeted information relating to the manufacture of two of its products is presented below:

# of times driver used

Activity

Cost

Driver

Product A

Product B

Setup

$68048

# of batches

30

10

Engineering

$121471

# of engineering hours

6849

10742

Machine Maintenance

$91358

# of machine hours

7000

12000

Direct labour cost

$11/hour

$347283

$535269

Direct materials

$127464

$92764

What would be the pre-determined overhead rate under a traditional costing model, with overhead allocated based on direct labour hours?

Select one:

a. $3.50

b. $15.97

c. $0.32

d. $1.28

Plaid Manufacturing Co. produces two products: G1 and M1. The company uses an activity based costing system. The following are the activities, budgeted total cost and cost drivers per activity for the year 20x9:

Activity

Budgeted Cost

Cost Base

Cost Base Volume

Assembly

$878839

# of DL hours

37235

Inspection

$658700

# of units

20728

Shipping

$328833

# of batches

199


Budgeted data relating to the production of M1 for 20x9 is given below:

Number of units

1500

Units per batch

79

Direct labour hours (@ $18 per hour)

19032 hours

Direct materials (@ $12.11 per kg.)

896 kg.


What is the total cost of producing M1 in 20x9?

Select one:

a. $539096

b. $881672

c. $528245

d. $980838

# of times driver used

Activity

Cost

Driver

Product A

Product B

Setup

$68048

# of batches

30

10

Engineering

$121471

# of engineering hours

6849

10742

Machine Maintenance

$91358

# of machine hours

7000

12000

Direct labour cost

$11/hour

$347283

$535269

Direct materials

$127464

$92764

Explanation / Answer

Solution 1: answer is a. $3.50

Working:

Total labor hours = total labor cost / labour rate

= [347,283+535,269] / 11

= 80,232 labour hours

Overhead allocation rate

= total overhead cost / total labor hours

= [ 68,048+121,471+280,877] / 80,232

= $3.50

Solution 2 answer is b. $881,672

Cost Amount Direct material 896x $12.11 10,850.56 Direct labour 19032x $18 342,576 Assembly 878,839x19032/37,235 449,202.74 Inspection 658,700x1500/20,728 47,667.41 Shipping 328,833x19/199 31,396.11 $881,672 approx.