Lampierre makes brass and gold frames. The company computed this information to decide whether to switch from the traditional allocation method to ABC: Brass Gold Units Planed 750 150 Material Moves 400 100 Machine Setups 500 750 Direct Labor Hours 600 1,100 The estimated overhead for the material cost pool is estimated as $13,000, and the estimate for the machine setup pool is $40,000. A. Calculate the allocation rate per unit of brass and per unit of gold using the traditional method? Round intermediate calculations and final answers t two decimal places. Brass Gold Allocation Rate per Unit Brass Gold 24.94 228.63 B. Calculate the allocation rate per unit of brass and per unit of gold using the activity-based costing method? Round intermediate calculations and final answers to two decimal places. Allocation Rate per Unit 35.2 177.33
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.
![Lampierre makes brass and gold frames. The company computed this information to decide whether to switch from the traditional allocation method to ABC:
Brass Gold
Units Planed
750 150
Material Moves
400 100
Machine Setups
500 750
Direct Labor Hours 600 1,100
The estimated overhead for the material cost pool is estimated as $13,000, and the estimate for the machine setup pool is $40,000.
A. Calculate the allocation rate per unit of brass and per unit of gold using the traditional method? Round intermediate calculations and final answers t
two decimal places.
Brass
24.94
228.63
B. Calculate the allocation rate per unit of brass and per unit of gold using the activity-based costing method? Round intermediate calculations and final
answers to two decimal places.
Gold
Brass
Allocation Rate
per Unit
Gold
Allocation Rate
per Unit
SA
35.2
177.33](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F2b3ad613-7273-486b-ba10-6a0d5b664e3b%2Fd95efffb-0b47-4c28-938d-c3ca9ebf7e2b%2F7aifp5q_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
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