Question: Digger Company uses Activity Based Costing and has already completed its first allocation of costs and summarized its annual cost and activity as follows: Activity
Digger Company uses Activity Based Costing and has already completed its first allocation of costs and
summarized its annual cost and activity as follows:
Activity Cost Pool
Estimated
Overhead
Cost Expected Activity
Trenching $ feet of trench
Removing soil $ cubic yards of soil
Drilling test holes $ test holes
Change orders $ change orders
Customer Service $ phone calls
Digger allocates Direct Costs as follows: Direct Materials $ per feet of trench and Direct labor of
$ per cubic yard of soil.
Required: Compute the activity rate for each activity cost pool as illustrated above:
Activity Cost Pool
Estimated
Overhead
Cost Expected Activity Activity Rate
Trenching...........................
Removing soil
Drilling test holes...............
Changer orders..................
Customer Service...............
Required: Compute the Activity Based Cost for a job that requires feet of trenching, cubic
yards of soil, test holes, change orders and customer service calls.
Activity Value Rate Amount
Direct Materials.................
Direct Labor.......................
ABCTrenching...................
ABCRemoving soil
ABCDrilling test holes.......
ABCChanger orders
ABCCustomer Service.......
TOTAL ACTIVITY BASED COST:
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