Xie Company identified the following activities, costs, and activity drivers for this year. The company manufactures two types of go- karts: Deluxe and Basic. Activity Handling materials Inspecting product Processing purchase orders Paying suppliers Insuring the factory. Designing packaging Expected Costs $715,000 990,000 195,000 Production volume Parts required Batches made Purchase orders Invoices Space occupied Models 265,000 390,000 165,000 Expected Activity 100,000 parts 1,500 batches 700 orders 500 invoices 40,000 square feet 2 models Assume that the following information is available for the company's two products for the first quarter of this year. Basic Model 30,000 units 30,000 parts Deluxe Model 10,000 units 20,000 parts 250 batches 50 orders 50 invoices 10,000 sq. ft. 1 model 100 batches 20 orders 10 invoices 7,000 sq. ft 1 model Required: Compute activity rates for each activity and assign overhead costs to each product model using activity-based costing (ABC). What is the overhead cost per unit of each model? (Round activity rate and average OH cost per unit answers to 2 decimal places.)
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.
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