Question: 20 Assume a companys activity-based costing system includes three activities with the following activity rates: Activity Cost Pool Activity Rate Travel $ 2 per mile
20 Assume a companys activity-based costing system includes three activities with the following activity rates:
| Activity Cost Pool | Activity Rate | |
|---|---|---|
| Travel | $ 2 | per mile driven |
| Deliveries | $ 50 | per delivery |
| Customer service | $ 22 | per phone call |
Two of the companys many customers include Customer A and Customer B. These two customers consumed the companys activities as follows:
| Total Expected Activity | ||
|---|---|---|
| Customer A | Customer B | |
| Travel (number of miles driven) | 350 | 250 |
| Deliveries (number of deliveries) | 15 | 5 |
| Customer service (number of phone calls) | 20 | 12 |
How much cost would be assigned from the Travel activity to Customer A?
Multiple Choice
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$60
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$700
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$175
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$500
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22
In its first year of operations a company produced and sold 70,000 units of Product A at a selling price of $20 per unit and 17,500 units of Product B at a selling price of $40 per unit. Additional information relating to the companys only two products is shown below:
Product A Product B Total Direct materials $ 436,300 $ 251,700 $ 688,000 Direct labor $ 200,000 $ 104,000 304,000 Manufacturing overhead 608,000 Cost of goods sold $ 1,600,000 The company created an activity-based costing system that allocated its manufacturing overhead costs to four activities as follows:
Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure) Manufacturing Overhead Activity Product A Product B Total Machining (machine-hours) $ 213,500 80,800 71,700 152,500 Setups (setup hours) 157,500 75 300 375 Product design (number of products) 120,000 1 1 2 Other (organization-sustaining costs) 117,000 NA NA NA Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 608,000 The companys ABC implementation team also concluded that $50,000 and $100,000 of the companys advertising expenses could be directly traced to Product A and Product B, respectively. The remainder of its selling and administrative expenses ($400,000) was organization-sustaining in nature. The companys activity-based costing system would allocate how much manufacturing overhead to Product A?
Multiple Choice
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$209,620
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$202,820
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$204,620
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$199,820
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