Activity Cost Pool Annual Activity 10,000 Machine hours 30,000 Material moves 15,000 Setups 25,000 Quality inspections 25,000 Orders 500 Customers Maintenance Materials Handling Setups Inspection Order processing Customer Support The company traces the costs of direct materials and direct labor to jobs (i.e. orders). Overhead costs (both manufacturing and non-manufacturing) are allocated to jobs using the activity-based costing system. These overhead costs are listed below: Indirect factory wages Other manufacturing overhead Selling and administrative expense $700,000 Total $250,000 $500,000 $1,450,000 The distribution of resource consumption across activity cost pools is given below: Activity Cost Pools Maintenance Materials Handling Setups Inspection Order processing customer support 10% 20% 20% 25% Indirect factory wages other manufacturing overhead Sellign and administrative expense 25% 10% 10% 30% 10% 40% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 40% 60%
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.
![?Refer to CASE 1 (Company A): What is the activity rate for the Inspection activity cost pool
$12.20 a O
$890.00 b O
$6.00 .c O
None of the amounts given d O](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F7551769b-fe49-4d3f-b0d7-7b86a003636c%2F9e61d4e1-ac6f-473f-a960-3572145549a1%2Fcrqn9tu_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
![Activity Cost Pool
Maintenance
Materials Handling
Setups
Inspection
Order processing
Customer Support
Annual Activity
10,000 Machine hours
30,000 Material moves
15,000 Setups
25,000 Quality inspections
25,000 Orders
500 Customers
The company traces the costs of direct materials and direct labor to jobs (i.e. orders). Overhead costs
(both manufacturing and non-manufacturing) are allocated to jobs using the activity-based costing
system. These overhead costs are listed below:
Indirect factory wages
Other manufacturing overhead
Selling and administrative expense $700,000
Total
$250,000
$500,000
$1,450,000
The distribution of resource consumption across activity cost pools is given below:
Activity Cost Pools
Maintenance Materials Handling Setups Inspection Order processing customer support
Indirect factory wages
other manufacturing overhead
Sellign and administrative expense
25%
25%
10%
20%
10%
10%
30%
10%
40%
20%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
40%
60%](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F7551769b-fe49-4d3f-b0d7-7b86a003636c%2F9e61d4e1-ac6f-473f-a960-3572145549a1%2F14mnhak_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
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