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Chapter 19: Q42PGB_2 (page 1081)

Rennie Plant Service completed a special landscaping job for Brenton Company. rennie uses ABC and has the following predetermined overhead allocation rates:

Activity Predetermined

Allocation Base Overhead Allocation Rate

Designing Number of designs \( 290 per design

Planting Number of plants \) 20 per plant

The Rennie job included \(1,500 in plants; \)800 in direct labor; one design; and 30 plants.

Requirements

2. If Brenton paid $3,690 for the job, what is the operating income or loss?

Short Answer

Expert verified

Operating Income: $2,000

Step by step solution

01

Step-by-Step-SolutionStep 1: Operating income

Operating income is the difference between the net income and the operating cost. Operating income denotes the amount earned in performing a complete cycle of operation. Operating cost includes the direct labor cost, material cost, and overhead cost.

Operating income earned is spent on after production activities to make sales and the residual amount is called the net profit.

02

Computation of operating income

OperatingIncome=Pricepaid-Totalcost=$3,690-$1,690=$2,000

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Most popular questions from this chapter

What are the inventory accounts used in JIT costing?

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.

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

1. Compute the manufacturing product cost per unit of each type of bookcase.

Refer to Short Exercise S19-8. Spectrum Corp. desires a 25% target gross profit after covering all product costs. Considering the total product costs assigned to the Products C and D in Short Exercise S19-8, what would Spectrum have to charge the customer to achieve that gross profit? Round to two decimal places.

Koehler (see Exercise E19-15 and Exercise E19-16) makes handheld calculators in two models—basic and professional—and wants to further refine its costing system by allocating overhead using activity-based costing. The estimated \(721,000 of manufacturing overhead has been divided into three primary activities: Materials Handling, Machine Setup, and Insertion of Parts. The following data have been compiled:

Material Handling

Machine Setup

Insertion of Parts

Total

Overhead costs

\) 45,000

\( 136,000

\) 540,000

$ 721,000

Allocation base

Number of parts

Number of setups

Number of parts

Expected usage:

Basic Model

32 parts per calculator

24 setups per year

32 parts per calculator

Professional

Model

58 parts per calculator

44 setups per year

58 parts per calculator

Requirement 1

Koehler expects to produce 200,000 basic models and 200,000 professional models. Compute the predetermined overhead allocation rates using activity-based costing. How much overhead is allocated to the basic model? To the professional model?
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