Plantwide versus Departmental Rates, Product-Costing Accuracy: Activity-Based Costing Ramsey Company produces speakers (Model A and Model B). Both products pass through two producing departments. Model A's production is much more labor-intensive than that of Model B. Model B is also the more popular of the two speakers. The following data has been gathered for the two products: Product Data Model A Model B Units produced per year 10,000 100,000 Prime costs $152,000 $1,520,000 Direct labor hours 143,000 320,000 Machine hours 19,000 200,000 Production runs 50 50 Inspection hours 700 1,100 Maintenance hours 10,000 90,000 Overhead costs: Setup costs $270,000 Inspection costs 207,000 Machining 612,000 Maintenance 300,000 Total $1,389,000 Required: 1. Compute the overhead cost per unit for each product by using a plantwide rate based on direct labor hours. (Round to two decimal places.) Required: 1. Compute the overhead cost per unit for each product by using a plantwide rate based on direct labor hours. (Round to two decimal places.) Plantwide rate: $ per DLH. Model A: overhead cost per unit A Model B: t overhead cost per unit 2. Compute the overhead cost per unit for each product by using ABC. (Round rates and unit overhead costs to two decimal places.) Model A: overhead cost per unit Model B: A overhead cost per unit Note: Be sure to complete both tables below. Activity Driver Activity Rate Setups + Inspections + Machining + Maintenance + Overhead assignment Model A Model B Setups Inspections Machining Maintenance Total overhead Units produced Overhead per unit 3. Suppose that Ramsey decides to use departmental overhead rates. There are two departments: Department 1: (machine intensive) with a rate of $3 per machine hour and Department 2: (labor intensive) with a rate of $1 per direct labor hour. The consumption of these two drivers is as follows: Department 1 Machine Hours Department 2 Direct Labor Hours Model A 8,000 126,000 Model B 160,000 250,000 Compute the overhead cost per unit for each product by using departmental rates. (Round to two decimal places.) Model A: per unit Model B: per unit 4. CONCEPTUAL CONNECTION Using the activity-based product costs as the standard, comment on the ability of departmental rates to improve the accuracy of product costing. Did the departmental rates do better than the plantwide rate? 4. CONCEPTUAL CONNECTION Using the activity-based product costs as the standard, comment on the ability of departmental rates to improve the accuracy of product costing. Did the departmental rates do better than the plantwide rate? A common justification is to use hours for machine-intensive departments and hours for labor-intensive departments. Using activity-based costs as the standard, we can say that departmental rates the accuracy of the overhead cost assignment for both products. The departmental rates cost A well the ABC method while the plantwide rate costs A well the ABC method. However, the rates of difference are very close. Looking at it this way, department costs are not clearly more wrong than the plantwide rate; they are wrong in a direction. The departmental rates do better than the plantwide rates