a. Plant-wide (single or blanket) overhead rates b. Department cost centre rates (where overhead absorption rates are based on an overhead analysis sheet) c. Activity-based costing (ABC)

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Pricing: meteor model retails for 840€, Moonlight Model retails 1485€

The company incurs overheads which total €1200.000. Α total of 15000€ direct labour hours are worked.

Department cost center

Buliding rent

50.000
utilities 50.000
machining 600.000
Procurement 150.000
Sales 150.000
General Management 200.000
Total 1.200.000

 

Cost center Machining Finishing Administration
Floor Area 1.500 sq.m  1.500 sq.m 2.000 sq.m
Machine Hours 25.000 hours 5.000 hours  
Direct Labour Hours 5000 hours 10.000 hours  

Each unit of Meteor was machined for 10 hours in Machining and 1 hour in Finishing. Each unit of the Moonlight was machined for 2 hours in Machining and 1 hour in Finishing.

Calculate the full cost for each bicycle model (e.g. Meteor and Moonlight) based on:

a. Plant-wide (single or blanket) overhead rates

b. Department cost centre rates (where overhead absorption rates are based on an overhead analysis sheet)

c. Activity-based costing (ABC)

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