Family Supermarkets (FS) operates at capacity and decides to apply ABC analysis to three product lines: baked

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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?

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Cost Accounting A Managerial Emphasis

ISBN: 978-0132109178

14th Edition

Authors: Charles T. Horngren, Srikant M.Dater, George Foster, Madhav

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