Shaw Wallace makes two wines: a regular wine and a premium wine. Shaw Wallace distributes theregularwineandthepremiumwinethroughdifferentdistributionchannels.Itdistributes 24,000
Question:
Shaw Wallace makes two wines: a regular wine and a premium wine. Shaw Wallace distributes
theregularwineandthepremiumwinethroughdifferentdistributionchannels.Itdistributes
24,000 cases of regular wine through 10 general distributors and 1,60,000 cases of the premium
wine through 30 specialty distributors. Shaw Wallace incurs Rs 42,60,000 in distribution costs.
Under its existing costing system, Shaw Wallace allocates distribution costs to products on the
basis of the cases shipped.To understand better the demands on its resources in the distribution
area, Shaw Wallace identifies three activities and related activity costs:
a. Promotional costs -Shaw Wallace estimates it incurs Rs 16,000 per distributor
b. Order Handling Costs-Shaw Wallace estimates costs of Rs 600 pertaining to each order.
Shaw Wallace records show that distributors of regular wine place an average of 10
orders per year whereas distributors of premium wine place an average of 20 orders per
year.
c. Delivery costs Rs 8 per case.
Required:
I.UsingShawWallaceexistingcostingsystem,calculatethetotaldistributioncostsand
distribution cost per case for the regular wine and the premium wine.
2. Using Shaw Wallace activity based costing system; calculate the total distribution costs and
distribution cost per case for the regular wine and the premium wine.
3.Explainthecostdifferencesandtheaccuracyoftheproductcostscalculatedusingtheexisting
costingsystemandtheABCsystem.HowmightShawWallacemanagementusetheinformation
from the ABC system to manage its business better?
Cost Accounting A Managerial Emphasis
ISBN: 978-0133392883
6th Canadian edition
Authors: Horngren, Srikant Datar, George Foster, Madhav Rajan, Christ