Hammer Company produces a variety of electronic equipment. One of its plants produces two laser printers: the deluxe and the regular. At the beginning of the year, the following data were prepared for this plant: Regular Deluxe Quantity Selling price Unit prime cost 100,000 800,000 $900 $529 $750 $483 In addition, the following information was provided so that overhead costs could be assigned to each product: Activity Name Activity Driver Deluxe Regular Activity Cost Setups Number of setups 300 200 $2,250,000 Machining Machine hours 100,000 300,000 68,000,000 Engineering Engineering hours 50,000 100,000 7,500,000 Packing Packing orders 100,000 400,000 450,000 Required: 1. Calculate the overhead rates for each activity. If required, carry your answers out to the nearest cent. Setups 4,500 per setup Machining Engineering Packing 170 per machine hour 50 per engineering hour 0.9 per packing order 2. Calculate the per-unit product cost for each product. Round your answers to the nearest whole dollar. Deluxe 583 X per unit Regular 495 X per unit
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.
![Activity Rates and Activity-Based Product Costing
Hammer Company produces a variety of electronic equipment. One of its plants produces two laser printers: the deluxe and the regular. At the beginning of the year, the following data were prepared for this plant:
Quantity
Selling price
Unit prime cost
Deluxe
Regular
100,000
800,000
$900
$750
$529
$483
In addition, the following information was provided so that overhead costs could be assigned to each product:
Activity Name
Activity Driver
Deluxe
Regular
Activity Cost
Setups
Number of setups
300
200
$2,250,000
Machining
Machine hours
100,000
Engineering
Engineering hours
50,000
300,000
100,000
68,000,000
7,500,000
Packing
Packing orders
100,000
400,000
450,000
Required:
1. Calculate the overhead rates for each activity. If required, carry your answers out to the nearest cent.
Setups
4,500
per setup
Machining
170 per machine hour
Engineering
$
50 per engineering hour
Packing
0.9 per packing order
2. Calculate the per-unit product cost for each product. Round your answers to the nearest whole dollar.
Deluxe
583 X per unit
Regular
495 X per unit](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F21ecc253-a6af-4589-b38e-9c6c5ab10fb9%2F6c55c8aa-55a1-418d-85be-aa40a7b61dbc%2F0klsth3_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
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