Health 'W Us, Inc., uses a traditional product costing system to assign overhead costs uniformly to all its packaged multigrain products. To meet Food and Drug Administration requirements and to assure its customers of safe, sanitary, and nutritious food, Health 'W Us engages in a high level of quality control. Health 'W Us assigns its quality-control overhead costs to all products at a rate of 17% of direct labor costs. Its direct labor cost for the month of June for its low-calorie breakfast line is $65,000. In response to repeated requests from its financial vice president, Health W Us's management agrees to adopt activity-based costing. Data relating to the low-calorie breakfast line for the month of June are as follows. Activity Cost Pools Inspections of material received In-process inspections FDA certification (a) Cost Drivers Number of pounds Number of servings Customer orders Quality-control overhead cost to be assigned Overhead Rate $0.90 per pound $0.33 per serving $12.00 per order $ Compute the quality-control overhead cost to be assigned to the low-calorie breakfast product line for the month of June (1) using the traditional product costing system (direct labor cost is the cost driver), and (2) using activity-based costing. Traditional product costing Number of Cost Drivers Used per Activity 5,900 pounds 10,700 servings $ 480 orders Activity-based costing
Health 'W Us, Inc., uses a traditional product costing system to assign overhead costs uniformly to all its packaged multigrain products. To meet Food and Drug Administration requirements and to assure its customers of safe, sanitary, and nutritious food, Health 'W Us engages in a high level of quality control. Health 'W Us assigns its quality-control overhead costs to all products at a rate of 17% of direct labor costs. Its direct labor cost for the month of June for its low-calorie breakfast line is $65,000. In response to repeated requests from its financial vice president, Health W Us's management agrees to adopt activity-based costing. Data relating to the low-calorie breakfast line for the month of June are as follows. Activity Cost Pools Inspections of material received In-process inspections FDA certification (a) Cost Drivers Number of pounds Number of servings Customer orders Quality-control overhead cost to be assigned Overhead Rate $0.90 per pound $0.33 per serving $12.00 per order $ Compute the quality-control overhead cost to be assigned to the low-calorie breakfast product line for the month of June (1) using the traditional product costing system (direct labor cost is the cost driver), and (2) using activity-based costing. Traditional product costing Number of Cost Drivers Used per Activity 5,900 pounds 10,700 servings $ 480 orders Activity-based costing
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Transcribed Image Text:Health 'W Us, Inc., uses a traditional product costing system to assign overhead costs uniformly to all its packaged multigrain products. To meet Food and Drug Administration requirements and
to assure its customers of safe, sanitary, and nutritious food, Health 'W Us engages in a high level of quality control. Health 'W Us assigns its quality-control overhead costs to all products at a
rate of 17% of direct labor costs. Its direct labor cost for the month of June for its low-calorie breakfast line is $65,000. In response to repeated requests from its financial vice president, Health
'W Us's management agrees to adopt activity-based costing. Data relating to the low-calorie breakfast line for the month of June are as follows.
Activity Cost Pools
Inspections of material received
In-process inspections
FDA certification
(a)
Cost Drivers
Number of pounds
Number of servings
Customer orders
Quality-control overhead cost to be assigned
Overhead
Rate
$0.90
per pound
$0.33 per serving
$12.00 per order
$
Compute the quality-control overhead cost to be assigned to the low-calorie breakfast product line for the month of June (1) using the traditional product costing system (direct labor cost
is the cost driver), and (2) using activity-based costing.
Traditional product costing
Number of Cost Drivers
Used per Activity
5,900 pounds
10,700 servings
$
480 orders
Activity-based costing
Transcribed Image Text:Compute the quality-control overhead cost to be assigned to the low-calorie breakfast product line for the month of June (1)
using the traditional product costing system (direct labor cost is the cost driver), and (2) using activity-based costing.
Quality-control overhead cost to be assigned
(b)
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