Adria Company recently implemented an activity-based costing system. At the beginning of the year, management m the following estimates of cost and activity in the company's five activity cost pools: Activity Cost Pool Labor-related Purchase orders Material receipts Relay assembly General factory Problem 4-18 Part 1 Activity Cost Pool Labor-related Required: 1. Compute the activity rate for each of the activity cost pools. Purchase orders Material receipts Relay assembly General factory Activity Rate Activity Measure Direct labor-hours Number of orders Number of receipts. Number of relays Machine-hours per DLH per order per receipt per relay per MH Expected Overhead Cost $ 34,000 $ 3,500 $ 9,000 $ 15,000 $205,000 Assessment Tool iFrame Expected Activity 8,500 DLHS 3,500 orders 900 receipts 2,500 relays 41,000 MHS
Process Costing
Process costing is a sort of operation costing which is employed to determine the value of a product at each process or stage of producing process, applicable where goods produced from a series of continuous operations or procedure.
Job Costing
Job costing is adhesive costs of each and every job involved in the production processes. It is an accounting measure. It is a method which determines the cost of specific jobs, which are performed according to the consumer’s specifications. Job costing is possible only in businesses where the production is done as per the customer’s requirement. For example, some customers order to manufacture furniture as per their needs.
ABC Costing
Cost Accounting is a form of managerial accounting that helps the company in assessing the total variable cost so as to compute the cost of production. Cost accounting is generally used by the management so as to ensure better decision-making. In comparison to financial accounting, cost accounting has to follow a set standard ad can be used flexibly by the management as per their needs. The types of Cost Accounting include – Lean Accounting, Standard Costing, Marginal Costing and Activity Based Costing.
![Adria Company recently implemented an activity-based costing system. At the beginning of the year, management made
the following estimates of cost and activity in the company's five activity cost pools:
Activity Cost Pool
Labor-related
Purchase orders
Material receipts
Relay assembly
General factory
Problem 4-18 Part 1
Activity Cost Pool
Labor-related
Required:
1. Compute the activity rate for each of the activity cost pools.
Purchase orders
Material receipts
Relay assembly
General factory
Activity Rate
Activity
Measure
Direct labor-hours
Number of orders
Number of receipts
Number of relays
Machine-hours
per DLH
per order
per receipt
per relay
per MH
Expected
Overhead
Cost
$ 34,000
$ 3,500
$ 9,000
$ 15,000
$205,000
Assessment Tool iFrame
Expected
Activity
8,500 DLHS
3,500 orders
900 receipts
2,500 relays
41,000 MHS](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F509e5958-8244-4a2f-8465-f7fef11461d8%2F69871928-9713-4f4b-8ba8-82ab3ac5e165%2Fesa4ca_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
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The overhead rate is calculated as estimated overhead cost divided by estimated base activity. The overhead is applied to the production on the basis of predetermined overhead rate.
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2. The expected activity for the year was distributed among the company's four products as follows:
Activity Cost Pool
Labor-related (DLHS)
Purchase orders (orders)
Materials receipts (receipts)
Relay assembly (relays)
General factory (MHS)
Expected Activity
Product A Product B Product C Product D
2,550
250
310
200
12,750
Product A
Product B
Product C
Product D
650
500
176
200
8,300
3,400
1,750
414
1,000
8,200
1,900
1,000
0
1,100
11,750
Using the ABC data, determine the total amount of overhead cost assigned to each product.
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