Advanced Products Corporation produces a fire-resistant commercial filing cabinet that it sells to office furniture distributors. The
Question:
Advanced Products Corporation produces a fire-resistant commercial filing cabinet that it sells to office furniture distributors. The company has a simple ABC system that it uses for internal decision-making purposes. The company has two overhead departments, whose costs are listed below:
a. Prepare a report showing the first stage allocations of overhead costs to the activity cost pools.
b. Compute the activity rates for the activity cost pools.
c. Prepare a report showing the overhead costs attributable to Shenzhen Enterprises, one of Advanced Product's customers. Last year, Shenzhen ordered filing cabinets four different times. Shenzhen ordered 80 filing cabinets in total during the year.
d. The selling price of a filing cabinet is $595. The cost of direct materials is $180 per filing cabinet, and direct labor is $50 per filing cabinet. What is the customer margin of Shenzhen Enterprises?