Panamint Systems Corporation is estimating activity costs associated with producing disk drives, tapes drives, and wire drives. The indirect labor can be traced to four separate activity pools. The budgeted activity cost and activity base data by product are provided below.   Activity Cost   Activity Base Procurement $377,200           Number of purchase orders Scheduling $219,700           Number of production orders Materials handling $498,400           Number of moves Product development $780,800           Number of engineering changes Production $1,545,800           Machine hours     Number ofPurchaseOrders Number ofProductionOrders NumberofMoves Number ofEngineeringChanges MachineHours NumberofUnits Disk drives 4,120     330       1,370     15       2,000     2,100   Tape drives 1,600     205       620     5       9,600     4,100   Wire drives 12,000     940       4,500     28       11,600     2,500   Determine the activity rate for production per machine hour. a.$76.8 b.$143.43 c.$21.29 d.$66.63       The Dawson Company manufactures small lamps and desk lamps. The following shows the activities per product and the total overhead information:   Setups Inspections Assembly (dlh) Small Lamps - 4,000 units 3,100 9,150 40,400 Desk Lamps - 11,000 units 6,200 15,250 40,400 Activity Pool Activity Base Budgeted Amount Setups 9,300 $95,790 Inspections 24,400 $148,840 Assembly (dlh) 70,700 $282,800 Calculate the overhead per unit to be charged to small lamps. a.$62.34 b.$112.21 c.$87.28 d.$37.40         When Isaiah Company has fixed costs of $127,400 and the contribution margin is $28, the break-even point is a.12,860 units b.9,100 units c.5,100 units d.4,550 units

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Panamint Systems Corporation is estimating activity costs associated with producing disk drives, tapes drives, and wire drives. The indirect labor can be traced to four separate activity pools. The budgeted activity cost and activity base data by product are provided below.

 
Activity Cost
 
Activity Base
Procurement $377,200           Number of purchase orders
Scheduling $219,700           Number of production orders
Materials handling $498,400           Number of moves
Product development $780,800           Number of engineering changes
Production $1,545,800           Machine hours
 
 
Number of
Purchase
Orders

Number of
Production
Orders

Number
of
Moves

Number of
Engineering
Changes


Machine
Hours

Number
of
Units
Disk drives 4,120     330       1,370     15       2,000     2,100  
Tape drives 1,600     205       620     5       9,600     4,100  
Wire drives 12,000     940       4,500     28       11,600     2,500  

Determine the activity rate for production per machine hour.

a.$76.8
b.$143.43
c.$21.29
d.$66.63
 
 
 

The Dawson Company manufactures small lamps and desk lamps. The following shows the activities per product and the total overhead information:

  Setups Inspections Assembly (dlh)
Small Lamps - 4,000 units 3,100 9,150 40,400
Desk Lamps - 11,000 units 6,200 15,250 40,400

Activity Pool Activity Base Budgeted Amount
Setups 9,300 $95,790
Inspections 24,400 $148,840
Assembly (dlh) 70,700 $282,800

Calculate the overhead per unit to be charged to small lamps.

a.$62.34
b.$112.21
c.$87.28
d.$37.40
 
 
 
 

When Isaiah Company has fixed costs of $127,400 and the contribution margin is $28, the break-even point is

a.12,860 units
b.9,100 units
c.5,100 units
d.4,550 units
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