Tom Spencer, the production supervisor, believes that he can reduce production costs by reducing the time spent on machine setups. He has spent the last month working with employees in the plant to change over the machines more quickly with the same reliability. He plans to produce 107,000 units of the Sport model and 43,500 units of the Pro model in the first quarter. He believes that with his more efficient setup routine, he can reduce the number of setup hours for both the Sport and the Pro products by one-third. Cost Drivers and Cost Driver Volumes-CenterPoint Manufacturing Facility
Tom Spencer, the production supervisor, believes that he can reduce production costs by reducing the time spent on machine setups. He has spent the last month working with employees in the plant to change over the machines more quickly with the same reliability. He plans to produce 107,000 units of the Sport model and 43,500 units of the Pro model in the first quarter. He believes that with his more efficient setup routine, he can reduce the number of setup hours for both the Sport and the Pro products by one-third. Cost Drivers and Cost Driver Volumes-CenterPoint Manufacturing Facility
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Transcribed Image Text:Tom Spencer, the production supervisor, believes that he can reduce production costs by reducing the time spent on machine setups.
He has spent the last month working with employees in the plant to change over the machines more quickly with the same reliability.
He plans to produce 107,000 units of the Sport model and 43,500 units of the Pro model in the first quarter. He believes that with his
more efficient setup routine, he can reduce the number of setup hours for both the Sport and the Pro products by one-third.
Cost Drivers and Cost Driver Volumes-CenterPoint Manufacturing Facility
Activity
Cost Driver
Sport
Cost Driver Volume
Pro
Total
Assembly building
Assembling
Setting up machines
Handling material
Packaging building
Inspecting and packing
Shipping
Machine-hours
Setup hours
Production runs
Direct labor-hours
Number of shipments
6,700
47
15
30,700
470
47
37,400
517
62
62,800
24,200
87,000
107
214
321
Third Quarter Unit Cost Report, Activity-Based Costing-CenterPoint Manufacturing Facility
Sport
$ 1,507,000
Direct material
Direct labor
Assembly
Packaging
Total direct labor
Direct costs
Overhead
Assembly building
$ 757,000
997,000
$ 1,754,000
$ 3,261,000
Pro
$ 2,414,000
$ 614,000
374,000
$ 988,000
$ 3,402,000
Assembling (@ $30 per MH)
Setting up machines (@ $900 per setup hour)
Handling material (@ $3,000 per run)
Packaging building
Inspecting and packing (@ $5 per direct labor-hour)
Shipping (@ $1,320 per shipment)
Total ABC overhead
Total ABC cost
Number of units
Unit cost
Required:
45,000
$ 201,000
42,300
314,000
141,240
$ 743,540
$ 4,004,540
$ 37.43
$ 921,000
423,000
141,000
121,000
282,480
$ 1,888,480
$ 5,290,480
43,500
$ 121.62
107,000
a. Compute the amount of overhead allocated to the Sport and the Pro drones for the first quarter using activity-based costing.
Assume that all events are the same in the first quarter as in the third quarter except for the number of setup hours. Assume the
cost of a setup hour remains at $900.
Model
Total ABC
Overhead
Sport
Pro
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