Clear Solutions manufactures and installs standard and custom-designed shop windows. Last ye the company incurred $2,400,000 in overhead costs when a total of 30,000 direct labour hours incurred. After implementing activity-based costing (ABC), the company's accountant identified following related information: Allocation Base Activity Proportion of overhead cost Number of Purchasing purchase 20% orders Material delivery and handling Number of 10% deliveries Hours of design time Design 20% Hours of Installation installation 50% time The number of activities for standard and custom-made windows is as follows: Standard Custom Number of purchase orders Number of deliveries Hours of design time Hours of installation time 1,000 1,400 200 400 200 800 700 600 Puring the past year, Clear Solutions accepted order no. 159 for one custom window installation nat would require the following: irect labour hours umber of purchase orders umber of deliveries purs of design time -urs of installation time 20 4
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.
![**Question 4.7**
Using activity-based costing, what would be the total overhead applied to order no. 159?
**NOTE:** Enter only the number of dollars, do not enter the dollar, "$", symbol. Therefore if your answer is "$10", enter only "10".
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**Question 4.8**
Generally in business, why is the activity-based costing method not favoured over the traditional overhead allocation method? Provide two reasons. Clearly indicate each reason in the following format:
Reason 1: .........
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