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Cost-plus and market-based pricing. (CMA, adapted) Precision Laboratories evaluates the reaction of materials to extreme increases in temperature. Much of the company’s early growth was attributable to government contracts, but recent growth has come from expansion into commercial markets. Two types of testing at Precision are Heat Testing (HTT) and Arctic-Condition Testing (ACT). Currently, all of the budgeted operating costs are collected in a single
Jeff Boone, Precision’s controller, believes that there is enough variation in the test procedures and cost structure to establish separate costing rates and billing rates at a 40% markup. He also believes that the inflexible rate structure the company is currently using is inadequate in today’s competitive environment. After analyzing the company data, he has divided operating costs into the following three cost pools:
| Labor and supervision | $ 500,000 |
| Setup and facility costs | 300,000 |
| Utilities | 360,000 |
| Total budgeted costs for the period | $1,160,000 |
Jeff Boone budgets 100,000 total test-hours for the coming period. Test-hours is also the cost driver for labor and supervision. The budgeted quantity of cost driver for setup and facility costs is 600 setup hours. The budgeted quantity of cost driver for utilities is 9,000 machine-hours.
Jeff has estimated that HTT uses 60% of the test-hours, 20% of the setup-hours, and half the machine-hours.
- 1. Find the single rate for operating costs based on test-hours, and the hourly billing rate for HTT and ACT. Required
- 2. Find the three activity-based rates for operating costs.
- 3. What will the billing rate for HTT and ACT be based on the activity-based costing structure? State the rates in terms of test-hours. Referring to both requirements 1 and 2, which rates make more sense for Precision?
- 4. If Precision’s competition all charge $19.50 per hour for arctic testing, what can Precision do to stay competitive?
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