Q2. (Garrison) Ferris Corporation makes a single product-a fire-resistant commercial filing cabinet-that it sells to office furniture distributors. The company has a simple ABC system that it uses for internal decision makir The company has two overhead departments whose costs are listed on th followings: Manufacturing overhead $500,000 Selling and administrative overhead 300,000
Q2. (Garrison) Ferris Corporation makes a single product-a fire-resistant commercial filing cabinet-that it sells to office furniture distributors. The company has a simple ABC system that it uses for internal decision makir The company has two overhead departments whose costs are listed on th followings: Manufacturing overhead $500,000 Selling and administrative overhead 300,000
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Transcribed Image Text:Q2. (Garrison) Ferris Corporation makes a single product-a fire-resistant
commercial filing cabinet-that it sells to office furniture distributors. The
company has a simple ABC system that it uses for internal decision making.
The company has two overhead departments whose costs are listed on the
followings:
Manufacturing overhead
$500,000
Selling and administrative overhead
300,000
Total overhead costs
$800,000
The company' s ABC system has the following activity cost pools and
activity measures

Transcribed Image Text:Activity Cost Pool
Activity Measure
Assembling units
Number of units
Processing orders .
Number of orders
Supporting customers
Number of customers
Other
Not applicable
Costs assigned to the "Other" activity cost pool have no activity measure;
they consist of the costs of unused capacity and organization-sustaining
costs-neither of which are assigned to orders, customers, or the product.
Ferris Corporation distributes the costs of manufacturing overhead and selling
and administrative overhead to the activity cost pools based on employee
interviews, the results of which are reported below:
Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activity Cost Pools
Assembling
Processing
Supporting
Other
Total
Units
Orders
Customers
Manufacturing overhead
50%
35%
5%
10%
100%
Selling and administrative
overhead
10%
45%
25%
20%
100%
Total activity
1,000
250
100
units
orders
customers
Required:
1. Compute activity rates for the activity cost pools
2. OfficeMart is one of Ferris Corporation' s customers. Last year, OfficeMart
ordered filing cabinets four different times. OfficeMart ordered a total of 80
filing cabinets during the year. Construct a table showing the overhead costs
attributable to OfficeMart.
3. The selling price of a filing cabinet is $595. The cost of direct materials is
$180 per filing cabinet, and direct labor is $50 per filing cabinet. What is the
customer margin of OfficeMart?
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