Family Supermarkets (FS) operates at capacity and decides to apply ABC analysis to three product lines: baked
Question:
Family Supermarkets (FS) operates at capacity and decides to apply ABC analysis to three product lines: baked goods, milk and fruit juice, and frozen foods. It identifies four activities and their activity cost rates as follows:
Ordering $100 per purchase order
Delivery and receipt of merchandise $ 80 per delivery
Shelf-stocking $ 20 per hour
Customer support and assistance $ 0.20 per item sold
The revenues, cost of goods sold, store support costs, the activities that account for the store support costs, and activity-area usage of the three product lines are as follows:
Under its simple costing system, FS allocated support costs to products at the rate of 30% of cost of goods sold.
Required
1. Use the simple costing system to prepare a product-line profitability report for FS.
2. Use the ABC system to prepare a product-line profitability report for FS.
3. What new insights does the ABC system in requirement 2 provide to FS managers?
Step by Step Answer:
Cost Accounting A Managerial Emphasis
ISBN: 978-0132109178
14th Edition
Authors: Charles T. Horngren, Srikant M.Dater, George Foster, Madhav