Question:Refer to Exercises E19-24 and E19-25. Suppose Western’s direct labor rate was $280 per hour. The Halbert engagement used the following resources last month:

Allocation Base Halbert

Direct labor hours 170

Pages 310

Applications used 80

Requirements

1. Compute the cost assigned to the Halbert engagement, using the ABC system.

2. Compute the operating income or loss from the Halbert engagement, using theABC system.

Short Answer

Expert verified

Total Cost:$97,920

Operating Loss:$21,760

Step by step solution

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Step-by-Step-SolutionStep1: Cost assigned to Halbert

Directlaborcost=Totaldirectlaborhours×Laborrate=170×$280=$47,600DocumentationPreprationCost=Predetermiendoverheadallocationrate×No.ofpages=$50×310=$15,500TSCost=Predetermiendoverheadallocationrate×No.ofapplicationsused=$210×80=$16,800

TrainingCost=Predetermiendoverheadallocationrate×No.ofdirectlaborhours=$106×170=$18,020TotalCostassignedtoHalbert=DirectLaborCost+DocumentationCost+ITSCost+TrainingCost=$47,600+$15,500+$16,800+$18,020=$97,920

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Operating Income/loss from Halbert

ServicerevenuefromHalbert=TotalDirectlaborcost×160100=$47,600×160100=$76,160OperatingIncome/loss=Servicerevenue-TotalCost=$76,160-$97,920=-$21,760

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Darby Corp. is considering the use of activity-based costing. The following information is provided for the production of two product lines:

Activity Cost Allocation Base

Setup \( 105,000 Number of setups

Machine maintenance 60,000 Number of machine hours

Total indirect manufacturing costs \) 165,000

Product A Product B Total

Direct labor hours 7,000 5,000 12,000

Number of setups 30 170 200

Number of machine hours 1,600 2,400 4,000

Darby plans to produce 375 units of Product A and 250 units of Product B. Compute the ABC indirect manufacturing cost per unit for each product.

Question:Refer to Exercise E19-26. Western desires a 20% target net profit after covering all costs. Considering the total costs assigned to the Halbert engagement in Exercise E19-26, what would Western have to charge the customer to achieve that net profit? Roundto two decimal places.

Define value engineering. How is it used to control costs?

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.

Harris Systems specializes in servers for workgroup, e-commerce, and ERP applications. The company’s original job costing system has two direct cost categories: direct materials and direct labor. Overhead is allocated to jobs at the single rate of \(22 per direct labor hour.

A task force headed by Harris’s CFO recently designed an ABC system with four activities. The ABC system retains the current system’s two direct cost categories. Overhead costs are reflected in the four activities. Pertinent data follow:

___________________________________________________________________

Activity Allocation Base Predetermined Overhead

Allocation Rate____

Materials handling Number of parts \) 0.85

Machine setup Number of setups 500.00

Assembling Number of assembling hours 80.00

Shipping Number of shipments 1,500.00_______

Harris Systems has been awarded two new contracts, which will be produced as Job A and Job B. Budget data relating to the contracts follow:

____________________________________________________________

Job A Job B__

Number of parts 15,000 2,000

Number of setups 6 4

Number of assembling hours 1,500 200

Number of shipments 1 1

Total direct labor hours 8,000 600

Number of units produced 100 10

Direct materials cost \( 220,000 \) 30,000

Direct labor cost \( 160,000 \) 12,000__

Requirements

1. Compute the budgeted product cost per unit for each job, using the original costing system (with two direct cost categories and a single overhead allocation rate).

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