Franklin, Inc. uses activity-based costing to account for its chrome bumper manufacturing process. Company managers have identified four manufacturing activities:

materials handling, machine setup, insertion of parts, and finishing. The budgeted activity costs for 2018 and their allocation bases are as follows:

Activity Total Budgeted Cost Allocation Base

Materials handling \( 12,000 Number of parts

Machine setup 3,100 Number of setups

Insertion of parts 42,000 Number of parts

Finishing 86,000 Finishing direct labor hours

Total \) 143,100

Franklin expects to produce 500 chrome bumpers during the year. The bumpers are expected to use 4,000 parts, require 10 setups, and consume 1,000 hours of finishing time.

Requirements

2. Compute the expected indirect manufacturing cost of each bumper.

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Answer

Indirect cost per bumper: $409.5

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Indirect Manufacturing cost

Indirect manufacturing costs are the costs that are not visible in the production process but help the production process to run efficiently. These costs cannot be directly attributed to each product or service but can be allocated based on some allocation base.

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Calculation of indirect manufacturing cost per bumper

Predetermined overhead allocation rate computed in the earlier part are as follow –

Material handling: $3

Machine setup: $310

Insertion of parts: $10.5

Finishing: $86

The indirect cost for each bumper would be the sum of all the allocation rate

Indirectcostperbumper=Materialhandlingrate+Machinesetuprate+Insertionofpartsrate+Finishingrate=$3+$310+$10.5+$86=$409.5

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Loiselle manufactures high-quality speakers. Suppose Loiselle is considering spending the following amounts on a new quality program:

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Additional 20 minutes of testing for each speaker \( 625,000

Negotiating and training suppliers to obtain higher-quality

materials and on-time delivery 430,000

Redesigning the speakers to make them easier to manufacture 1,250,000

Loiselle expects this quality program to save costs as follows:

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Reduce warranty repair costs \) 275,000

Avoid inspection of raw materials 580,000

Avoid rework because of fewer defective units 825,000_

It also expects this program to avoid lost profits from the following:

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Lost profits due to disappointed customers $ 920,000

Lost production time due to rework 278,000

Requirements

1. Classify each of these costs into one of the four categories of quality costs (prevention, appraisal, internal failure, or external failure).

2. Should Loiselle implement the quality program? Give your reasons.

Stegall, Inc. manufactures motor scooters. For each of the following examples of quality costs, indicate which of the following quality cost categories each example represents: prevention costs, appraisal costs, internal failure costs, or external failure costs.

1. Preventive maintenance on machinery

2. Direct materials, direct labor, and manufacturing overhead incurred to rework a defective scooter that is detected in-house through inspection

3. Lost profits from lost sales if the company’s reputation is hurt because customers previously purchased a poor-quality scooter

4. Cost of inspecting raw materials, such as chassis and wheels

5. Working with suppliers to achieve on-time delivery of defect-free raw materials

6. Cost of warranty repairs on a scooter that malfunctions at a customer’s location

7. Costs of testing durability of vinyl

8. Cost to reinspect reworked scooters

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Question:Oscar, Inc. manufactures bookcases and uses an activity-based costing system. Oscar’s activity areas and related data follow:

Activity

Budgeted Cost of Activity

Allocation Base

Predetermined Overhead Allocation Rate

Materials handling

\( 240,000

Number of parts

\)1.00

Assembly

3,500,000

Number of assembling direct labor hours

17.00

Finishing

190,000

Number of finished units*

4.50

*Refers to number of units receiving the finishing activity, not the number of units transferred to Finished Goods Inventory

Oscar produced two styles of bookcases in October: the standard bookcase and an unfinished bookcase, which has fewer parts and requires no finishing. The totals for quantities, direct materials costs, and other data follow:

Product

Total Units Produced

Total Direct materials Costs

Total Direct Labor Costs

Total Number of Parts

Total Assembling Direct Labor Hours

Standard bookcase

7,000

\(91,000

\)105,000

28,000

10,500

Unfinished bookcase

7,500

82,500

75,000

22,500

7,500

Requirements

2. Suppose that pre-manufacturing activities, such as product design, were assigned to the standard bookcases at \(5 each and to the unfinished bookcases at \)3 each. Similar analyses were conducted of post-manufacturing activities such as distribution, marketing, and customer service. The post-manufacturing costs were \(20 per standard bookcase and \)18 per unfinished bookcase. Compute the full product costs per unit.

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