
Managerial Accounting (5th Edition)
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Author: Karen W. Braun, Wendy M. Tietz
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 8, Problem 8.18AE
1.
To determine
To calculate: Current total cost of making and selling 10 million cans of paint and current cost per can of paint.
2.
To determine
To calculate: Target total of cost in producing and selling 10 million cans of paint.
To explain: Company would reach stakeholders profit goals.
3.
To determine
To calculate: Target variable cost per can of paint when the fixed cost is reduced by $300,000.
4.
To determine
To calculate: Cost-plus price for a can of paint under the given conditions.
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Activity Based Costing - practice problem
Fontillas Instrument, Inc. manufactures two products: missile range instruments and
space pressure gauges. During April, 50 range instruments and 300 pressure gauges
were produced, and overhead costs of $89,500 were estimated. An analysis of
estimated overhead costs reveals the following activities.
Activities
1. Materials handling
2. Machine setups
Cost Drivers
Number of requisitions
Number of setups
Total cost
$35,000
27,500
3. Quality inspections
Number of inspections
27,000
$89.500
The cost driver volume for each product was as follows:
Cost Drivers
Instruments
Gauge
Total
Number of requisitions
400
600
1,000
Number of setups
200
300
500
Number of inspections
200
400
600
Insructions
(a) Determine the overhead rate for each activity.
(b) Assign the manufacturing overhead costs for April to the two products using
activity-based costing.
Bodhi Company has three cost pools and two doggie products (leashes and collars). The activity cost pool
of ordering has the cost drive of purchase orders. The activity cost pool of assembly has a cost driver of
parts. The activity cost pool of supervising has the cost driver of labor hours. The accumulated data
relative to those cost drivers is as follows:
Expected Use of
Estimated
Cost Drivers by Product
Cost Drivers
Overhead
Leashes
Collars
Purchase orders
$260,000
70,000
60,000
Parts
400,000
300,000
500,000
Labor hours
300,000
15,000
10,000
$960,000
Instructions: (a) Compute the activity-based overhead rates. (b) Compute the costs assigned to leashes
and collars for each activity cost pool. (c) Compute the total costs assigned to each product.
Chapter 8 Solutions
Managerial Accounting (5th Edition)
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Ch. 8 - Determine relevance of information (Learning...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.2SECh. 8 - Prob. 8.3SECh. 8 - Prob. 8.4SECh. 8 - Prob. 8.5SECh. 8 - Prob. 8.6SECh. 8 - Prob. 8.7SECh. 8 - Prob. 8.8SECh. 8 - Product mix decision: Unlimited demand (Learning...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.10SECh. 8 - Outsourcing production decision (Learning...Ch. 8 - Relevant information for outsourcing delivery...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.13SECh. 8 - Prob. 8.14SECh. 8 - Prob. 8.15SECh. 8 - Determine relevant and irrelevant information...Ch. 8 - SUSTAINABILITY ES-17A Sustainability and...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.18AECh. 8 - Prob. 8.19AECh. 8 - Analyze special order decision (Learning Objective...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.21AECh. 8 - Prob. 8.22AECh. 8 - Prob. 8.23AECh. 8 - Discontinuing a product line (Learning Objective...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.25AECh. 8 - Determine product mix for retailertwo stocking...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.27AECh. 8 - Make-or-buy product component (Learning Objective...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.29AECh. 8 - Prob. 8.30AECh. 8 - Prob. 8.31AECh. 8 - Prob. 8.32BECh. 8 - Prob. 8.33BECh. 8 - Prob. 8.34BECh. 8 - Prob. 8.35BECh. 8 - Prob. 8.36BECh. 8 - Prob. 8.37BECh. 8 - Prob. 8.38BECh. 8 - Prob. 8.39BECh. 8 - Prob. 8.40BECh. 8 - Identify constraint, then determine product mix...Ch. 8 - Determine product mix for retailertwo stocking...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.43BECh. 8 - Prob. 8.44BECh. 8 - Prob. 8.45BECh. 8 - Determine maximum outsourcing price (Learning...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.47BECh. 8 - Prob. 8.48APCh. 8 - Special order decision and considerations...Ch. 8 - Prepare and use contribution margin statements for...Ch. 8 - Product mix decision under constraint (Learning...Ch. 8 - Outsourcing decision given alternative use of...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.53APCh. 8 - Prob. 8.54BPCh. 8 - Prob. 8.55BPCh. 8 - Prepare and use contribution margin statements for...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.57BPCh. 8 - Prob. 8.58BPCh. 8 - Prob. 8.59BPCh. 8 - Decide whether to discontinue a department...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.61ACTCh. 8 - Outsourcing Decision at a Real Company Go to the...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.63ACTCh. 8 - Prob. 8.64ACT
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