Mello Manufacturing Company is a diversified manufacturer that manufactures three products (Alpha, Beta, and Omega) in a continuous production process. Senior management has asked the controller to conduct an activity-based costing study. The controller identified the amount of factory overhead required by the critical activities Activity-Based Product Costing of the organization as follows: Activity Cost Pool Activity $259,200 Production Setup 55,000 Materials handling 9,750 Inspection 60,000 Product engineering 123,200 Total $507,150 The activity bases identified for each activity are as follows: Activity Activity Base Production Machine hours Setup Number of setups Materials handling Number of parts Inspection Number of inspection hours Product engineering Number of engineering hours he activity-base usage quantities and units produced for the three products were determined from corporate records and are as follows: Number of Number of Previous Next
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.
![Mello Manufacturing Company is a diversified manufacturer that manufactures three products (Alpha, Beta, and Omega) in a continuous production process. Senior
management has asked the controller to conduct an activity-based costing study. The controller identified the amount of factory overhead required by the critical activities
Activity-Based Product Costing
of the organization as follows:
Activity Cost Pool
Activity
$259,200
Production
Setup
55,000
Materials handling
9,750
Inspection
60,000
Product engineering
123,200
Total
$507,150
The activity bases identified for each activity are as follows:
Activity
Activity Base
Production
Machine hours
Setup
Number of setups
Materials handling
Number of parts
Inspection
Product engineering
Number of inspection hours
Number of engineering hours
he activity-base usage quantities and units produced for the three products were determined from corporate records and are as follows:
Number of
Number of
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![Number of
Number of
Machine
Number of
Number of
Inspection
Engineering
Hours
Setups
Parts
Hours
Hours
Units
Alpha
1,440
75
65
400
125
1,800
Beta
1,080
165
80
300
175
1,350
Omega
720
310
180
500
140
900
Total
3,240
550
325
1,200
440
4,050
Each product requires 48 minutes per unit of machine time.
Required:
If required, round all per unit amounts to the nearest cent.
1. Determine the activity rate for each activity.
Production
per machine hour
Setup
per setup
Materials handling
per part
Inspection
per inspection hour
Product engineering
per engineering hour
2. Determine the total and per-unit activity cost for all three products.
Total Activity Cost
Activity Cost Per Unit
Alpha
Beta
Omega
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