Part 1. New Firm uses an ABC system. The system includes 4 cost pools: mixing, machining finishing and packing. Mixing is allocated on the basis of DM cost; machining is allocated on the basis of machine hours; finishing is allocated on the basis of DL hours and packing is allocated on the basis of product weight. At the beginning of this year, the following estimates were made

Direct Materials $734,000

Direct Labor 953,000

Mixing cost 377,000

Machining cost 721,000

Finishing cost 467,000

Packing cost 167,000

Units produced 800

Average weight per unit 89 ounces

DL hours 32,000

Machine hours 306,000

Job 491 was produced on June 16. It contained $3,890 in DM and $8,400 in DL. It weighed 52 ounces. Production required 416 DLH and 981 machine hours.

1. Assuming the firm uses a traditional job costing system applied on the basis of DLH, what is the cost of Job 491?
2. Assuming the firm uses an ABC system, what is the cost of Job 491?

Part 2. Forge On! provides wilderness experiences for groups of any size. Each group chooses its destination and then a custom experience is planned around that location. Clients must arrange their own transportation to the nearest city with an airport. After that everything is provided. Clients will walk a little every day and then sleep out under the stars. All necessary equipment is provided by Forge On!, including sleeping bags, walking sticks, backpacks and water bottles and any other equipment that is needed. Exactly what is provided varies depending on the destination, the season and the fitness of the group. After the experience the equipment is taken home by the clients. Each group is accompanied by expert wilderness guides. By contract, there must can be no more than 10 people for each guide. All meals are also prepared for the group by the camp cook (who is not a guide), who brings all the food and necessary cooking gear on a llama or pack mule. Meals are prepared to reflect the local cuisine and are determined by Forge On!s expert nutritionist in consultation with the group.

The firm uses an ABC system. There are four cost pools: food, which includes the cost of food, the equipment required to prepare it and the time of the cook who accompanies the group (the cost driver is person/days[number of people times number of days), equipment (the cost driver is number of people) and staff (the cost driver is number of staff days required for the trek) and other (the cost driver is number of groups). Other includes all administrative costs as well as transportation from the airports to the beginning of the trek. For the upcoming summer season, the following estimates have been made:

Number of treks 56

Average duration of trek 7 days

average number in group 9 people

Equipment cost $850,000

Food cost 592,000

Staff cost 998,000

Miscellaneous cost 326,000

The Jones family (there are 13 of them) has booked a trek along the Inca Trail. They will walk the entire trail, requiring 12 days. Because the nights can be quite cold in the higher elevations, they require special cold weather sleeping bags, but otherwise their equipment needs are similar to other treks. They will fly into Cuzco to meet their guides.

Compute the cost of the Jones trek.