Single drivers vs. multiple drivers Eagan Electrical Instruments Company esti mates manufacturing support as 950% of direct
Question:
Single drivers vs. multiple drivers Eagan Electrical Instruments Company esti¬
mates manufacturing support as 950% of direct labor costs. Eagan's controller, Jim Becker, is concerned that the actual manufacturing support activity costs have differed substantially from the estimates in recent months. He suspects that the problem is related to the use of only one cost driver. Jim identified the fol¬ lowing three additional cost drivers that reflect support activities: number of ma¬ terial moves, number of setups, and number of machine hours. He developed the following rates to estimate manufacturing support activity costs:
REQUIRED
(a) Estimate manufacturing support costs using the single-driver and multiple- driver systems.
(b) Why do the two sets of estimate differ?
(c) Why will both methods fail to predict accurately the manufacturing support costs? Is one of the two methods likely to be more useful than the other? Explain.
(LO 1, 3)
Step by Step Answer:
Management Accounting
ISBN: 9780130101952
3rd Edition
Authors: Anthony A. Atkinson, Robert S. Kaplan, S. Mark Young, Rajiv D. Banker, Pajiv D. Banker