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Jazz Limited manufactures electronic components for machines and has just made the change to an activity based costing system which will assign labour, manufacturing and
Jazz Limited manufactures electronic components for machines and has just made the change to an activity based costing system which will assign labour, manufacturing and non-manufacturing overhead costs to products.
A bill of activities for one of company's major products Component ET27 is given below:
Activity | Component ET 27 Cost per unit of Activity Driver | Annual Quantity of Activity Driver used by Component ET 27 |
Prepare purchase order | $ 22 per purchase order | 80 purchase orders |
Process payables | $ 8 per invoice received | 240 invoices |
Prepare payroll | $ 9 per payslip | 550 payslips |
Process sales order, pack and dispatch | $ 26 per sales order | 2 000 sales orders |
Program solder robots | $ 126 per program | 350 programs |
Solder circuits | $ 2 per solder joint | 120 000 solder joints |
Assemble circuit boards | $ 5 per board | 20 000 boards |
Wire in and test switch | $ 18 per switch | 20 000 switches |
Insert fuse | $ 11 per fuse | 20 000 fuses |
Design switch | $ 15,270 for Component ET 27 |
The company produced 24,000 Components of ET 27 for the year. The direct material cost per Component ET 27 is $48.
Before introducing activity based costing, under a conventional (traditional) plant-wide overhead application the company used to allocate all conversion costs based on direct labour hours, calculated as $ 60 per direct labour hour. Under this system Component ET 27 would have used 18,500 direct labour hours (which would have had overheads applied to it).
REQUIRED: (Calculations to 3 decimal places - Show all workings)
Compute the total unit cost for Component ET 27 -
(i) Under the previous conventional costing system.
(ii) Under the new activity-based costing (ABC) system.
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