Question: To do this: Your tutor will provide you with a case study that includes financial information about an engineering organization which either produces engineering products

To do this: Your tutor will provide you with a case study that includes financial information about an engineering organization which either produces engineering products or provides an engineering service. You should then: Investigate and report on the reasons why engineering organizations want to analyses and control costs, including how decision making can be influenced. Use the case study to research the costs associated with either producing a product or providing an engineering service. You should investigate how costs are allocated to individual activities, including direct costs, indirect costs, variable costs, semi-variable costs, fixed costs and general/administration costs. You should then use the case study to complete and record an iterative activity-based costing exercise to generate an activity-based cost model for an engineering product or service. This costing exercise should include five stages: 1) identifying activities. 2) assigning resource costs to activities. 3) identifying outputs. 4) assigning activity costs to outputs. 5) assigning activity cost pools. Finally, you should reflect on the results of your activity-based costing exercise, by: a) explaining how costs are categorized. b) identifying those cost areas that have the greatest impact on the profitability of the product or service that you have investigated.Case study [1]: Golf and Music Enthusiast Company (GAME)
GAME company developed two specialized products A and B. For a recent period, the company sold 30,000 units of A and 6,000 units of B. Traditional method has been used to allocate in-direct costs. The net profit per unit for each type was determined as the following:
Net profit = total revenue - total expenses
Net profit per unit = total revenue per unit -(direct material cost per unit + direct labor cost per unit + overhead cost per unit)
Net profit (A)=130-(45+25+50)=$10? unit
Net profit (B)=230-(85+35+50)=$60? unit
The company is thinking of expanding production of type (B) because it makes higher profit. And stop production of (A) as a result of its lower profit.
Before taking this decision, the company needs you to build an Activity Based Costing model to make sure that they are taking the true decision. The company has 4 indirect cost pools:
Machines setup activity with $560,000 total cost
Purchase orders activity with $340,000 total cost
Quality control activity with $360,000 total cost
Machines maintenance activity with $540,000 total cost.
The company produce two products A, B with the following data:
\table[[Droduct,(A),(B)],[Number of units,30,000,6,000],[Total revenue per unit,$130,$230
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