For many years, Thomson Company manufactured a single product called LEC 40. Then three years ago, the company automated a portion of its plant and at the same time introduced a second product called LEC 90 that has become increasingly popular. The LEC 90 is a more complex product, requiring 0.60 hours of direct labor time per unit to manufacture and extensive machining in the automated portion of the plant. The LEC 40 requires only 0.20 hours of direct labor time per unit and only a small amount of machining. Manufacturing overhead costs are currently assigned to products on the basis of direct labor-hours.   Despite the growing popularity of the company’s new LEC 90, profits have been declining steadily. Management is beginning to believe that there may be a problem with the company’s costing system. Direct material and direct labor costs per unit are as follows:     LEC 40 LEC 90 Direct materials $ 28.00 $ 46.00 Direct labor (0.20 hours and 0.60 hours @ $20.00 per hour) $ 4.00 $ 12.00   Management estimates that the company will incur $505,000 in manufacturing overhead costs during the current year and 50,000 units of the LEC 40 and 25,000 units of the LEC 90 will be produced and sold.   Required: 1. Compute the predetermined overhead rate assuming that the company continues to apply manufacturing overhead cost on the basis of direct labor-hours. Then, using this rate and other data from the problem, determine the unit product cost of each product. 2. Management is considering using activity-based costing to assign manufacturing overhead cost to products. The activity-based costing system would have the following four activity cost pools:   Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Estimated Overhead Cost Maintaining parts inventory Number of part types $ 290,000 Processing purchase orders Number of purchase orders 120,000 Quality control Number of tests run 75,000 Machine-related Machine-hours 20,000     $ 505,000   Activity Measure Expected Activity LEC 40 LEC 90 Total Number of part types 550 900 1,450 Number of purchase orders 1,200 800 2,000 Number of tests run 1,000 1,500 2,500 Machine-hours 3,000 7,000 10,000   Determine the activity rate for each of the four activity cost pools. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)   3. Using the activity rates you computed in part (2), determine the per unit amount of manufacturing overhead cost that would be assigned to each product using the activity-based costing system. And compute the unit product cost of each product.

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For many years, Thomson Company manufactured a single product called LEC 40. Then three years ago, the company automated a portion of its plant and at the same time introduced a second product called LEC 90 that has become increasingly popular. The LEC 90 is a more complex product, requiring 0.60 hours of direct labor time per unit to manufacture and extensive machining in the automated portion of the plant. The LEC 40 requires only 0.20 hours of direct labor time per unit and only a small amount of machining. Manufacturing overhead costs are currently assigned to products on the basis of direct labor-hours.

 

Despite the growing popularity of the company’s new LEC 90, profits have been declining steadily. Management is beginning to believe that there may be a problem with the company’s costing system. Direct material and direct labor costs per unit are as follows:

 

  LEC 40 LEC 90
Direct materials $ 28.00 $ 46.00
Direct labor (0.20 hours and 0.60 hours @ $20.00 per hour) $ 4.00 $ 12.00

 

Management estimates that the company will incur $505,000 in manufacturing overhead costs during the current year and 50,000 units of the LEC 40 and 25,000 units of the LEC 90 will be produced and sold.

 

Required:

1. Compute the predetermined overhead rate assuming that the company continues to apply manufacturing overhead cost on the basis of direct labor-hours. Then, using this rate and other data from the problem, determine the unit product cost of each product.

2. Management is considering using activity-based costing to assign manufacturing overhead cost to products. The activity-based costing system would have the following four activity cost pools:

 

Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Estimated Overhead Cost
Maintaining parts inventory Number of part types $ 290,000
Processing purchase orders Number of purchase orders 120,000
Quality control Number of tests run 75,000
Machine-related Machine-hours 20,000
    $ 505,000

 

Activity Measure Expected Activity
LEC 40 LEC 90 Total
Number of part types 550 900 1,450
Number of purchase orders 1,200 800 2,000
Number of tests run 1,000 1,500 2,500
Machine-hours 3,000 7,000 10,000

 

Determine the activity rate for each of the four activity cost pools. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

 

3. Using the activity rates you computed in part (2), determine the per unit amount of manufacturing overhead cost that would be assigned to each product using the activity-based costing system. And compute the unit product cost of each product.

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