Management is considering using activity-based costing to assign manufacturing overhead cost to products. The activity-based costing system
Question:
Management is considering using activity-based costing to assign manufacturing overhead cost to products. The activity-based costing system would have the following four activity cost pools:
Expected Annual Activity
Activity drivers
LaserEye
Hurricane
Number of part types
600
900
Number of purchase orders
2000
800
Number of test runs
500
1750
Machine hours
1600
8400
Activity cost pool
Activity drivers
Estimated overhead costs
Maintaining parts inventory
Number of part types
$225,000
Processing purchase orders
Number of purchase orders
$182,000
Quality control
Number of test runs
$45,000
Machine related
Machine hours
$460,000
Required: Using activity-based costing compute the unit product cost of each product.
Introduction to Managerial Accounting
ISBN: 978-0078025792
7th edition
Authors: Peter Brewer, Ray Garrison, Eric Noreen