Rogers printing Ltd. Has contracts to complete weekly supplements required by it?s cutomers.For the current year, manufacturing
Question:
Rogers printing Ltd. Has contracts to complete weekly supplements required by it?s cutomers.For the current year, manufacturing overhead cost estimates total $ 580,000 for an annual production capacity of 14, 5000,000 pages. Currently overhead is allocated on a per page basis.Rogers printing is trying to decide if they should evaluate the use of additional cost pools. After analyzing manufacturing overhead cost, it was determined that number of design changes, setups, and inspections are the primary manufacturing overhead cost drivers. The following information was gathered during the analysis:
Two customers, Jackson Sports and Beaufort Travel, are expected to use the following printing services:
Pages are a direct cost at $0.02 per page. Design costs per job average $1,500 and $1,700 for Jackson Sports and Beaufort Travel, respectively. Rogers Printing sets prices at $0.11 per page.
Assume that all costs are variable/
Required:
- Calculate the manufacturing overhead allocation rate for each activity using ABC
- Compute the total cost for each customers using ABC
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