Cranest Manufacturing uses departmental cost driver rates to allocate manufacturing overhead costs to products. Cranest is in
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Cranest is in the process of bidding on two jobs: Job 500 an order of 15 standard tables and Job 600 an order of 6 customized tables.
The CEO wants you to compare overhead allocated under simple job-costing system with one cost pool where overhead is allocated based on machine-hours and a newly-designed activity-based job-costing system, where total budgeted costs in each indirect cost pool and the budgeted quantity of activity driver are as follow:
Budgeted overhead
Activity Driver
Budgeted Quantity of Activity Driver
Purchasing $105,000
Purchase orders processed 3,000
Set-up 131,250
Nb of Set-ups 7,500
Machine maintenance 355,950
Machine-hours 15,750
Product inspection 28,350
Nb of inspections 1,800
Packaging 59,850
Units produced 5,700
Information related to Job 500 and Job 600 follows
Job 215
Job 325
Units produced 15 6
1-Compute The total overhead allocated to each job under a simple costing system (one cost pool)
2- Compute The total overhead allocated to each job under the ABC
3-Which method do you favor? Explain why.
4-How might Cranest use the information in requirement 2 to make better decisions.
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Accounting Information Systems
ISBN: 9780132871938
11th edition
Authors: George H. Bodnar, William S. Hopwood
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