EXERCISE 45 Assigning Overhead to Products in ABC LO42, LO43 Sultan Company uses an activity-based costing system.
Question:
EXERCISE 4–5 Assigning Overhead to Products in ABC LO4–2, LO4–3 Sultan Company uses an activity-based costing system. At the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates of cost and activity for its five activity cost pools:
Required:
1. Compute the activity rate for each of the activity cost pools.
2. The expected activity for the year was distributed among the company’s four products as follows:
Labor-related
(DLHs)
Purchase orders
(orders)
Parts management
(part types)
Board etching
(boards)
General factory
(MHs)
Expected Activity Activity Cost Pool Product A
Product B
Product C
Product D
6,000 11,000 4,000 5,000 60 30 40 90 30 15 40 15 500 900 600 0 3,000 8,000 3,000 6,000 Using the ABC data, determine the total amount of overhead cost assigned to each product.
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Introduction To Managerial Accounting
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