Blue Spruce Windows Inc. is in the process of setting a target price on its newly designed tinted window. Cost data relating to the window at a budgeted volume of 5,040 units are as follows. Per Unit Total Direct materials $ 110 Direct labor $ 70 Variable manufacturing overhead $ 10 Fixed manufacturing overhead $ 151,200 Variable selling and administrative expenses $ 10 Fixed selling and administrative expenses $ 128,520 Blue Spruce Windows uses cost-plus pricing methods that are designed to provide the company with a 25% ROI on its tinted window line. A total of $1,280,160 in assets is committed to production of the new tinted window.

Firenza Company manufactures specialty tools to customer order. Budgeted overhead for the coming year is: Previously, Sanjay Bhatt, Firenza Companys controller, had applied overhead on the basis of machine hours. Expected machine hours for the coming year are 50,000. Sanjay has been reading about activity-based costing, and he wonders whether or not it might offer some advantages to his company. He decided that appropriate drivers for overhead activities are purchase orders for purchasing, number of setups for setup cost, engineering hours for engineering cost, and machine hours for other. Budgeted amounts for these drivers are 5,000 purchase orders, 500 setups, and 2,500 engineering hours. Sanjay has been asked to prepare bids for two jobs with the following information: The typical bid price includes a 40 percent markup over full manufacturing cost. Required: 1. Calculate a plantwide rate for Firenza Company based on machine hours. What is the bid price of each job using this rate? 2. Calculate activity rates for the four overhead activities. What is the bid price of each job using these rates? 3. Which bids are more accurate? Why?

Lean accounting Dashboard Inc. manufactures and assembles automobile instrument panels for both eCar Motors and Greenville Motors. The process consists of a lean product cell for each customers instrument assembly. The data that follow concern only the eCar lean cell. For the year, Dashboard Inc. budgeted the following costs for the eCar production cell: Dashboard Inc. plans 2,000 hours of production for the eCar cell for the year. The materials cost is 240 per instrument assembly. Each assembly requires 24 minutes of cell assembly time. There was no April 1 inventory for either Raw and In Process Inventory or Finished Goods Inventory. The following summary events took place in the eCar cell during April: A. Electronic parts and wiring were purchased to produce 450 instrument assemblies in April. B. Conversion costs were applied for the production of 400 units in April. C. 380 units were started, completed, and transferred to finished goods in April. D. 350 units were shipped to customers at a price of 800 per unit. Instructions 1. Determine the budgeted cell conversion cost per hour. 2. Determine the budgeted cell conversion cost per unit. 3. Journalize the summary transactions (a) through (d). 4. Determine the ending balance in Raw and In Process Inventory and Finished Goods Inventory. 5. How does the accounting in a lean environment differ from traditional accounting?

Palladium Inc. produces a variety of household cleaning products. Palladium’s controller has developed standard costs for the following four overhead items: Overhead Item Total Fixed Cost Variable Rate per DirectLabor Hour Maintenance $ 86,000           $0.20                    Power   0.45                    Indirect labor 140,000           2.10                    Rent 35,000             Next year, Palladium expects production to require 90,000 direct labor hours. Required: Question Content Area 1. Prepare an overhead budget for the expected level of direct labor hours for the coming year. Palladium Inc.Overhead BudgetFor the Coming Year Variable costs: Rate per Hour Activity Level 90,000 Hours blank Maintenance $fill in the blank ddf6cc027003019_1 $fill in the blank ddf6cc027003019_2 blank Power fill in the blank ddf6cc027003019_3 fill in the blank ddf6cc027003019_4 blank Indirect labor fill in the blank ddf6cc027003019_5 fill in the blank…