Sultan Company uses an activity-based costing system. At the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates of cost and activity for its five activity cost pools: Expected Overhead Activity Cost Pool Labor-related Purchase orders Parts management Board etching General factory Activity Measure Direct labor-hours Number of orders Number of part types Number of boards Machine-hours Cost $ 233,600 $ 9,360 $ 80,000 $ 59,850 $ 236,500 Expected Activity 29,200 DLHS 234 orders 100 part types 1,710 boards 21,500 MHS Required: 1. Compute the activity rate for each of the activity cost pools. 2. The expected activity for the year was distributed among the company's four products as follows: Activity Cost Pool Labor-related (DLHS) Purchase orders (orders) Parts management (part types) Board etching (boards) General factory (MHs) Expected Activity Product A Product B Product C Product D 16,100 29 4,400 74 25 430 3,300 50 44 530 3,600 5,400 81 18 750 8,100 13 3,300 6,500 Using the ABC data, determine the total amount of overhead cost assigned to each product.
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.
![Expected Activity
Product A Product B Product C Product D
Activity Cost Pool
Labor-related (DLHS)
Purchase orders (orders)
Parts management (part types)
Board etching (boards)
General factory (MHs)
4,400
74
25
430
3,300
16,100
29
18
3,300
50
44
530
3,600
5,400
81
13
750
8,100
6,500
Using the ABC data, determine the total amount of overhead cost assigned to each product.
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Compute the activity rate for each of the activity cost pools.
Activity Cost Pool
Activity Rate
Labor-related
per DLH
Purchase orders
per order
Parts management
Board etching
per part type
per board
General factory
per MH](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2Fb9b2f648-2424-467b-a59f-ee0e48a3ac11%2Fd321dc78-fe92-4ad0-be1a-3bacbb2b9d23%2F0jn3wfq_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
![Sultan Company uses an activity-based costing system.
At the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates of cost and activity for its five activity cost pools:
Activity Cost Pool
Labor-related
Purchase orders
Parts management
Board etching
General factory
Activity Measure
Direct labor-hours
Number of orders
Number of part types
Number of boards
Machine-hours
Expected
Overhead
Cost
$ 233,600
$ 9,360
$ 80,000
$59,850
$ 236,500
Expected Activity
29,200 DLHS
234 orders
100 part types
1,710 boards
21,500 MHS
Required:
1. Compute the activity rate for each of the activity cost pools.
2. The expected activity for the year was distributed among the company's four products as follows:
Expected Activity
Activity Cost Pool
Labor-related (DLHS)
Purchase orders (orders)
Parts management (part types)
Board etching (boards)
General factory (MHs)
Product A Product B Product C Product D
4,400
74
25
430
3,300
16,100
29
3,300
50
44
530
5,400
81
13
18
750
8,100
3,600
6,500
Using the ABC data, determine the total amount of overhead cost assigned to each product.
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