DROP DOWN ANSWERS:

1. b. increases/decreases increases/decreases

1. c. more/the same regardless of/depending on the same/higher regardless of/depending on

the same/more a cost differenceo cost difference regardless of/depending on higher/lower

the same/higher lower/higher would differ/be the same according to/regardless of

1. d. physical units method/ relative sales value method/ sales-value-at-split-off method/ physical and relative sales value method

descriptive/ diagnostic/ prescriptive/ predictive

descriptive and diagnostic/ diagnostic and predictive/ predictive and prescriptive/ prescriptive and descriptive

descriptive/ diagnostic/ predictive/ prescriptive

descriptive, diagnostic, and predictive/ diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive/ predictive, prescriptive, and descriptive/ prescriptive, predictive, and diagnostic

2. overapplied/underapplied

3. b. multiplied/divided

5. a. favorable/unfavorable (first four responses)

FIFO/weighted average need noteed can not/can FIFO/weighted average

5. c. favorable/unfavorable

8. increase/decrease easily/difficult to increase/decrease easily/difficult to departmental rates/plantwide rate increase/decrease increase/decrease increase/decrease increase/decrease increase/decrease can/can not improve/worse more/less

Beauville Furniture Corporation produces sofas, recliners, and lounge chairs. Beauville is located in a medium-sized community in the southeastern part of the United States. It is a major employer in the community. In fact, the economic well-being of the community is tied very strongly to Beauville. Beauville operates a sawmill, a fabric plant, and a furniture plant in the same community. The sawmill buys logs from independent producers. The sawmill then processes the logs into four grades of lumber: firsts and seconds, No. 1 common, No. 2 common, and No. 3 common. All costs incurred in the mill are common to the four grades of lumber. All four grades of lumber are used by the furniture plant. The mill transfers everything it produces to the furniture plant, and the grades are transferred at cost. Trucks are used to move the lumber from the mill to the furniture plant. Although no outside sales exist, the mill could sell to external customers, and the selling prices of the four grades are known. The fabric plant is responsible for producing the fabric that is used by the furniture plant. To produce three totally different fabrics (identified by fabric ID codes FB60, FB70, and FB80, respectively), the plant has three separate production operations-one for each fabric. Thus, production of all three fabrics occurs at the same time in different locations in the plant. Each fabric's production operation has two processes: the weaving and pattern process and the coloring and bolting process. In the weaving and pattern process, yarn is used to create yards of fabric with different designs. In the next process, the fabric is dyed, cut into 25 -yard sections, and wrapped around cardboard rods to form 25 -yard bolts. The bolts are transported by forklift to the furniture plant's Receiving Department. All of the output of the fabric plant is used by the furniture plant (to produce the sofas and chairs). For accounting purposes, the fabric is transferred at cost to the furniture plant. The furniture plant produces orders for customers on a special-order basis. The customers specify the quantity, style, fabric, lumber grade, and pattern. Typically, jobs are large (involving at least 500 units). The plant has two production departments: Cutting and Assembly. In the Cutting Department, the fabric and wooden frame components are sized and cut. Other components are purchased from external suppliers and are removed from stores as needed for assembly. After the fabric and wooden components are finished for the entire job, they are moved to the Assembly Department. The Assembly Department takes the individual components and assembles the sofas (or chairs). Beauville Furniture has been in business for over two decades and has a good reputation. However, during the past five years, Beauville experienced eroding profits and declining sales. Bids were increasingly lost (even aggressive bids) on the more popular models. Yet, the company was winning bids on some of the more-difficult-to-produce items. Lance Hays, the owner and manager, was frustrated. He simply couldn't understand how some of his competitors could sell for such low prices. On a common sofa job involving 500 units, Beauville's bids were running $25 per unit, or $12,500 per job more than the winning bids (on average). Yet, on the more difficult items, Beauville's bids were running about $60 per unit less than the next closest bid. Gisela Berling, vice president of finance, was assigned the task of preparing a cost analysis of the company's product lines. Lance wanted to know if the company's costs were excessive. Perhaps the company was being wasteful, and it was simply costing more to produce furniture than it was costing its competitors. Gisela prepared herself by reading recent literature on cost management and product costing and attending several conferences that explored the same issues. She then reviewed the costing procedures of the company's mill and two plants and did a preliminary assessment of their soundness. The production costs of the mill were common to all lumber grades and were assigned using the physical units method. Since the output and production costs were fairly uniform throughout the year, the mill used an actual costing system. Although Gisela had no difficulty with actual costing, she decided to explore the effects of using the sales-value-at-split-off method. Thus, cost and production data for the mill were gathered so that an analysis could be conducted. The two plants used normal costing systems. The fabric plant used process costing, and the furniture plant used job-order costing. Both plants used plantwide overhead rates based on direct labor hours. Based on her initial reviews, she concluded that the costing procedures for the fabric plant were satisfactory. Essentially, there was no evidence of product diversity. A statistical analysis revealed that about 90 percent of the variability in the plant's overhead cost could be explained by direct labor hours. Thus, the use of a plantwide overhead rate based on direct labor hours seemed justified. What did concern her, though, was the material waste that she observed in the plant. Maybe a standard cost system would be useful for increasing the overall cost efficiency of the plant. Consequently, as part of her report to Lance, she decided to include a description of the fabric plant's costing procedures-at least for one of the fabric types. She also decided to develop a standard cost sheet for the chosen fabric. The furniture plant, however, was a more difficult matter. Product diversity was present and could be causing some distortions in product costs. Furthermore, statistical analysis revealed that only about 40 percent of the variability in overhead cost was explained by the direct labor hours. She decided that additional analysis was needed so that a sound product costing method could be recommended. One possibility would be to increase the number of overhead rates. Thus, she decided to include departmental data so that the effect of moving to departmental rates could be assessed. Finally, she also wanted to explore the possibility of converting the sawmill and fabric plant into profit centers and changing the existing transfer pricing policy. Joint manufacturing costs: $900,000 *Units are measured in yards for the Weaving and Pattern Department and in bolts for the Coloring and Bolting Department. Note: With the exception of the cardboard bolt rods, materials are added at the beginning of each process. The cost of the rods is relatively insignificant and is included in overhead. Proposed standard cost sheet for Fabric FB70 (for the Coloring and Bolting Department only): Furniture Plant: Departmental data (budqeted): After some discussion with the furniture plant controller, Gisela decided to use machine hours to calculate the overhead rate for the Cutting Department and direct labor hours for the Assembly Department rate (the Cutting Department was more automated than the Assembly Department). As part of her report, she wanted to compare the effects of plantwide rates and departmental rates on the cost of jobs. She wanted to know if overhead costing could be the source of the pricing problems the company was experiencing. To assess the effect of the different overhead assignment procedures, Gisela decided to examine two prospective jobs. One job, Job A500, could produce 500 sofas, using a frequently requested style and Fabric FB70. Bids on this type of job were being lost more frequently to competitors. The second job, Job B75, would produce 75 specially designed recliners. This job involved a new design and was more difficult for the workers to build. It involved some special cutting requirements and an unfamiliar assembly. Recently, the company seemed to be winning more bids on jobs of this type. To compute the costs of the two jobs, Gisela assembled the following information on the two jobs: Job A500: \begin{tabular}{ll} \hline Direct materials: & \\ Fabric FB70 & 180 bolts @ $350 \\ Lumber (No. 1 common) & 20,000 board feet @ $0.12 \\ Other components & $26,600 \\ Direct labor: & \\ Cutting Department & 400 hours @ $10 \\ Assembly Department & 1,600 hours @ $8.75 \\ Machine time: & \\ Cutting Department & 350 machine hours \\ Assembly Department & 50 machine hours \\ \hline \end{tabular} Job B75: \begin{tabular}{ll} \hline Direct materials: & \\ Fabric FB70 & 26 yards @ $350 \\ Lumber (first and seconds) & 2,200 board feet @ $0.12 \\ Other components & $3,236 \end{tabular} Direct labor: 1. Complete the following table by calculating the sawmill's cost per board for each grade using both the physical units method and the sales-value-at-split-off method. Begin by allocating the joint manufacturing costs to each grade, and calculate the cost per board foot for each grade using each method. Round unit cost answers to two decimal places. a. Physical units method of allocation: Sales-value-at-split-off method: Sawmill Cost and Production Data b. Given that the sawmill provides lumber at cost to the furniture plant, using the sales-value-at-split-off method the cost of Job A500 by $ and the cost of Job B75 by $ c. The physical units method, often used in the lumber industry, essentially assumes that it costs to produce each board foot the grade. Thus, cost of lumber would be assigned to a sofa or chair which grade is used. This approach has some drawbacks. Intuitively, the higher grades should cost . Certainly, if the company was buying this input from suppliers, there would be for sofas and chairs the grade of lumber purchased, because the higher grades have a selling price. The relative sales value method assigns! cost to grades that have a market value. Thus, the cost assigned to sofas and chairs the grade of lumber used. d. Review the data analytic concepts and metrics found in Exhibits 2.5 and 2.6, pp. 37, 40. What are the data analytic models being considered for the Sawmill? Which of the data analytic types is being used in Part a of Requirement 1 ? And for Part b? Part c? Note: More than one data analytic type may apply. Which of the data analytic models in play would you recommend for assigning the joint manufacturing sawmill costs? 2. Calculate the plantwide overhead rate for the fabric plant. per hour Calculate the amount of under- or overapplied overhead for the fabric plant. $ 3. a. Using the weighted average method, complete the following information regarding the Weaving and Pattern production process: b. To convert the output of the Weaving and Pattern Department to the output of the Coloring and Bolting Department, yards transferred is by c. Using the weighted average method, complete the following for the Coloring and Bolting Department: i. Physical flow schedule (measured in bolts) 4. Currently, the three types of fabrics are produced simultaneously in different locations of the fabric plant using similar processes. Process costing methods are used to determine the unit cost of each fabric. Historically, the plant has never fully utilized any of the three processes. The maximum historical utilization of the capacity has been about 50 percent. Juana Sandoval, the fabric plant manager, is confident that the three operations can be consolidated in a way that there would be sufficient capacity to produce all three fabrics while capturing significant savings by reducing labor and overhead costs. In fact, total direct labor and variable overhead costs would be reduced by 25 percent and fixed overhead costs by 50 percent. Production of the three fabrics can be managed by using a batch production approach; however, one problem is that the yarn used for each fabric differs significantly in cost. Conversion activity is the same for each fabric regardless of the type of yarn. The cost accounting manager has assembled the following budgeted annual data for each process that reflects the expected reductions: a. Calculate the conversion rate for each process using direct labor hours (round to whole dollars): Weaving and Pattern Process: \$ Coloring and Bolting Process: \$ per hour per hour b. Assume a batch of 400 bolts of FB70 is produced. The cost of yarn requisitioned for the batch is $40,000. The batch used 2,550 direct labor hours in Weaving and Pattern and 1,200 hours in Coloring and Bolting. In Coloring and Bolting, another $10,000 of materials (dyes) were requisitioned for the batch. Calculate the cost per bolt for the production 5. In the Coloring and Bolting Department, 400,000 ounces of other materials were purchased and used to produce Fabric FB70's output of the period. a. Using the proposed standard cost sheet for Fabric FB70, calculate the following variances for the Coloring and Bolting Department (round actual unit costs and prices to three decimal places; round variances to the nearest dollar): In calculating the variances, which method did you use to compute the actual output of the period-FIFO or weighted average? Explain. must be used because it measures output of the period. Standard costing simplifies process costing because the unit cost is the standard cost and be calculated. The unit standard cost be used to value goods transferred out and EWIP. Thus, all that is needed are the physical flow schedule and the equivalent units schedule. 5b. Prepare the journal entries for materials and labor: i. Purchase of 400,000 ounces of other materials 6. Suppose that the fabric plant has 500 bolts of FB70 in beginning finished goods inventory. The current-year plan is to have 1,000 bolts of FB70 in finished goods inventory at the end of the year. This fabric has an external market price of $400 per bolt. If the fabric plant is set up as a profit center, it could sell 3,000 bolts per year to outside customers and supply 2,000 bolts per year internally to Beauville's furniture plant. If the fabric plant were designated as a profit center, the plant would transfer all goods internally at market price. Using the proposed standard cost sheet (as needed) and any other relevant data, prepare the following for Fabric FB70: 7. Calculate the following overhead rates for the furniture plant: (1) plantwide rate and (2) departmental rates. Use the direct method for assigning service costs to producing departments. Round your answers to two decimal places. Assume that the company's aggressive bidding policy is unit cost plus 50 percent. Did departmental overhead rates have any effect on Beauville's winning or losing bids? What recommendation would you make? Explain. Round your answers to two decimal places. Departmental rates the bid for the more produced Job A500 and. the bid for the more produce Job B75. This appears to be in the right direction. We would recommend using the Now, adjust the costs and bids for departmental rate bids using the proposed standard costs for the Coloring and Bolting Department. Did this make a difference? What does this tell you? Round your answers to two decimal places. Enter all amounts as positive numbers. Standard cost would the cost of Fabric FB70 for both jobs. For Job A500, prime costs will by $ . And for Job B75, prime costs will by $ . Thus, the bid for Job A500 will by $ . Similarly, the bid for Job B75 will by $ This tells us that we apparently avoid including waste in our bid by using standard costs and our bidding. It also tells us that we need to focus on becoming efficient