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Problem 5-45 Volume-Based Costing versus ABC [LO 5-1, 5-3, 5-5]

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ADA Pharmaceutical Company produces three drugsDiomycin, Homycin, and Addolinbelonging to the analgesic (pain-killer) family of medication. Since its inception four years ago, ADA has used a direct labor hourbased system to assign manufacturing overhead costs to products.

Eme Weissman, the president of ADA Pharmaceutical, has just read about activity-based costing in a trade journal. With some curiosity and interest, she asked her financial controller, Takedo Simon, to examine differences in product costs between the firms current costing and activity-based costing systems.

ADA has the following budget information for the year:

	Diomycin				Homycin				Addolin
Cost of direct materials	$	199,000			$	259,000			$	252,000
Cost of direct labor		244,000				228,000				257,000
Number of direct labor hours		7,140				6,740				1,940
Number of capsules		940,000				494,000				294,000

ADA has identified the following activities and cost drivers and has assigned them a total overhead cost of $197,000.

Activity	Cost Driver	Budgeted Overhead Cost				Budgeted Cost Driver Volume
Machine setup	Setup hours	$	15,400				1,540
Plant management	Number of Workers		35,400				1,140
Supervision of direct labor	Direct labor hours		45,400				15,400
Quality inspection	Inspection hours		49,800				1,020
Order expediting	Customers served		51,000				615
Total overhead		$	197,000

Takedo selected the cost drivers with the following justifications:

SETUP HOURS: The cost driver of setup hours is used because the same product takes about the same amount of setup time regardless of size of batch. For different products, however, the setup time varies.

NUMBER OF WORKERS: Plant management includes plant maintenance and corresponding managerial duties that make production possible. This activity depends on the number of workers. The more workers involved, the higher the cost.

DIRECT LABOR HOURS: Supervisors spend their time supervising production. The amount of time they spend on each product is proportional to the direct labor hours worked.

INSPECTION HOURS: Inspection involves testing a number of units in a batch. The time varies for different products but is the same for all similar products.

NUMBER OF CUSTOMERS SERVED: The need to expedite production increases as the number of customers served by the company increases. Thus, the number of customers served by ADA is a good measure of expediting production orders.

Takedo gathered the following information about the cost driver volume for each product:

	Diomycin				Homycin				Addolin
Setup hours		170				570				770
Number of workers		170				370				570
Direct labor hours		7,140				6,740				1,940
Inspection hours		120				170				670
Customers served		39				94				470

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Part 1

Required:

1. Use the firms current costing system to calculate the unit cost of each product.

2. Use the activity-based cost system to calculate the unit cost of each product.

Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Required 1 Required 2 Use the firm's current costing system to calculate the unit cost of each product. (Round intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places. Round "Cost per capsule" to 2 decimal places.) Diomycin Homycin Addolin Direct Materials S 199,000.00 S 259.000.00 S 252,000.00 Direct Labor s 244,000.00 s 228,000.00 s 257,000.00 Overhead Total Cost Packets produced $ 940,000.00 s 494,000.00 S 294,000.00 Cost per capsule Rent Required 2 > Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Required 1 Required 2 Use the activity-based cost system to calculate the unit cost of each product. (Round intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places. Round "Cost per capsule" to 2 decimal places.) Direct Materials s Diomycin 199,000.00 244,000.00 S Homycin 259.000.00 228.000.00 S Addolin 252,000.00 257,000.00 Direct Labor s S S Overhead Total Cost Packets produced Cost per capsule s 940,000.00 S 494,000.00 S 294,000.00