Question: Whitman Printing has contracts to complete weekly supplements required by forty-six customers. For the year 20X5, manufacturing overhead cost estimates total $840,000 for an annual

  1. Whitman Printing has contracts to complete weekly supplements required by forty-six customers. For the year 20X5, manufacturing overhead cost estimates total $840,000 for an annual production capacity of 12 million pages.

For 2010, Whitman Printing decided to evaluate the use of additional cost pools. After analyzing manufacturing overhead costs, it was determined that the number of design changes, setups, and inspections are the primary manufacturing overhead cost drivers. The following information was gathered during the analysis:

Cost Pool

Manufacturing overhead costs

Activity

Design changes

$120,000

200 design changes

Setups

640,000

4,000 setups

Inspections

80,000

16,000 inspections

Total manufacturing overhead costs

$840,000

During 2010, two customers, Money Managers and Hospital Systems, are expected to use the following printing services:

Activity

Money Managers

Hospital Systems

Pages

60,000

76,000

Design changes

10

2

Setups

20

10

Inspections

30

38

When costs are assigned using the single cost driver, number of pages printed, then Hospital Systems will ___?

  1. Will contribute too little to profits, and Wallace Printing will not want to accept additional work from the company.
  2. Will likely seek to do business with competitors
  3. Is grossly under billed for the job, while other jobs will be unfairly over billed.
  4. Is fairly billed because resources are allocated uniformly to all jobs.

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