Learning Materials
Features
Discover
Chapter 19: Q. 19-3SE (page 1064)
Activity-based costing requires four steps. List the four steps in the order they are performed.
The four steps in ABC are identifying activities, estimating their amount and allocation base, computing predetermined rate, and allocating overhead costs.
Over 30 million students worldwide already upgrade their learning with Vaia!
All the tools & learning materials you need for study success - in one app.
Get started for free
PetSmart, Inc. is a large specialty pet retailer of services and solutions for the needs of pets. In addition to selling pet food and pet products, PetSmart also offers dog grooming services including bath, nail trim, teeth brushing, aromatherapy to reduce everyday stress, and nail polish and stickers. PetSmart even offers a Top Dog service that includes a premium shampoo, milk bath conditioner, scented cologne spritz, teeth brushing, and bandana or bow.
Assume PetSmart, Inc. expects to incur \(380,000 of indirect costs this year. The company allocates indirect costs based on the following activities:
___________________________________________________________________
Activity Estimated Allocation Base Estimated Quantity
Cost of Allocation
Base____
Admission \) 60,000 Number of admissions 20,000
Cleaning 240,000 Cleaning direct labor hours 100,000
Grooming 80,000 Grooming direct labor hours 4,000
Total indirect costs $ 380,000________________________________________
Requirements
3. If PetSmart desires a 30% target operating income after covering all its costs, what would PetSmart have to charge the customer to achieve that operating income?
Question:Stella, Inc. is using a costs-of-quality approach to evaluate design engineering efforts for a new skateboard. Stella’s senior managers expect the engineering work to reduce appraisal, internal failure, and external failure activities. The predicted reductions in activities over the two-year life of the skateboards follow. Also shown are the predetermined overhead allocation rates for each activity.
Activity Predicted Predetermined
Reduction in Overhead Allocation
Activity Units Rate per Unit
Inspection of incoming raw materials 390 $ 44
Inspection of finished goods 390 19
Number of defective units discovered in-house 1,200 50
Number of defective units discovered by customers 325 72
Lost profits due to dissatisfied customers 75 102
Requirements
1. Calculate the predicted quality cost savings from the design engineering work.
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.
Harcourt Pharmaceuticals manufactures an over-the-counter allergy medication. The company sells both large commercial containers of 1,000 capsules to health care facilities and travel packs of 20 capsules to shops in airports, train stations, and hotels. The following information has been developed to determine if an activity-based costing system would be beneficial:
Activity Estimated Estimated Quantity
Indirect Cost Allocation Base of Allocation Base
Materials handling \( 96,000 Number of kilos 24,000 kilos
Packaging 210,000 Number of machine hours 3,000 hours
Quality assurance 114,000 Number of samples 1,900 samples
Total indirect costs \) 420,000
Other production information includes the following:
Commercial Containers Travel Packs
Units produced 2,800 containers 51,000 packs
Weight in kilos 9,800 5,100
Machine hours 1,960 510
Number of samples 560 765
Requirements
3. Use the predetermined overhead allocation rates to compute the activity-based costs per unit of the commercial containers and the travel packs. Round to two decimal places. (Hint: First compute the total activity-based costs allocated to each product line, and then compute the cost per unit.)
The following information is provided for Orbit Antenna Corp., which manufactures two products: Lo-Gain antennas and Hi-Gain antennas for use in remote areas.
Activity Cost Allocation Base
Setup \( 58,000 Number of setups
Machine maintenance 30,000 Number of machine hours
Total indirect manufacturing costs \) 88,000
Lo-Gain Hi-Gain Total
Direct labor hours 1,200 3,800 5,000
Number of setups 40 40 80
Number of machine hours 3,000 2,000 5,000
Orbit Antenna plans to produce 125 Lo-Gain antennas and 225 Hi-Gain antennas.
Requirements
2. Compute the ABC indirect manufacturing cost per unit for each product.
What do you think about this solution?
We value your feedback to improve our textbook solutions.
Explanations 
Textbooks 
Exams 
GCSE 
IGCSE 
AS 
A Level 
International A Level 
University Admissions Tests 
Flashcards 
Vaia AI 
Notes 
Study Plans 
Study Sets 
Find a job 
Find a degree 
Student Deals 
Magazine 
Mobile App