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4. Nationals Inc. uses activity-based costing to determine the costs of its thre

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Question

4. Nationals Inc. uses activity-based costing to determine the costs of its three products: A, B, and C. The budgeted cost and activity for each of the company's three activity cost pools are shown below. (Check: Activity 1 activity rate should be a number between $7 and $10). (3 points)

Budgeted Activity

Activity Cost Pool

Budgeted Cost

Product A

Product B

Product C

Activity 1

$140,000

7,500

4,000

6,000

Activity 2

$54,000

2,500

2,000

1,500

Activity 3

$38,000

15,000

25,000

30,000


Compute the company's activity rates under activity-based costing for each of the three activities.

5. Yasiel, Designs, Inc. designs custom storage solutions to businesses. The following data is from the company’s most reporting period:

Design department

        Client consultation

500 contact hours

$100,000

        Drawing

1,000 design hours

$70,000

        Models

20,000 square feet

$25,000

Project Management

        Supervision

250 days

$43,750

        Billings

150 jobs

$55,000




a. Use ABC to compute overhead rates for each activity. Hint: You should have five different ABC overhead rates based on budgeted costs and overhead drivers above. (1 point)

b. Allocate costs to a 3,000 square foot job that requires 70 contact hours, 20 design hours, and 14 days to complete. Hint: Use the ABC overhead rates that you calculated in part a to allocate the overhead for each activity to this job based on the requirements of this one job. Check: Total overhead for this one job is a number between $20,000 and $23,000.

Budgeted Activity

Activity Cost Pool

Budgeted Cost

Product A

Product B

Product C

Activity 1

$140,000

7,500

4,000

6,000

Activity 2

$54,000

2,500

2,000

1,500

Activity 3

$38,000

15,000

25,000

30,000

Explanation / Answer

4. The company's activity rates under activity-based costing :

Activity A = $ 8.00

Activity B = $ 9.00

Activity C= $ 0.54

Note :

5.

The correct answer is :

Note :

b.

The correct answer is $ 21,966.67

Note :

Budgeted Activity Activity Cost Pool Budgeted Cost Product A Product B Product C Total Budgeted Activity ( Product A+ B+ C) Activity Rate ( Budgeted Cost /Total Budgeted Activity ) Activity 1 140000 7,500 4,000 6,000 17500 8.00 Activity 2 54000 2,500 2,000 1,500 6000 9.00 Activity 3 38000 15,000 25,000 30,000 70000 0.54
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