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Smithville Industries has a traditional costing system in which it applies manufacturing overhead to its products using a predetermined overhead rate based on machine-hours (MHs).

Smithville Industries has a traditional costing system in which it applies manufacturing overhead to its products using a predetermined overhead rate based on machine-hours (MHs). The company has two products, Manual and Power, about which it has provided the following data:

Manual

Power

Direct materials per unit

$

27.50

$

64.90

Direct labor per unit

$

7.80

$

23.40

Annual production units

40,000

15,000

The company's estimated total manufacturing overhead for the year is $2,700,000 and the company's estimated total machine hours for the year is 70,000.

The company is considering using a variation of activity-based costing to determine its unit product costs for external reports. Data for this proposed activity-based costing system appear below:

Activities and Activity Measures

Estimated Overhead Cost

Machining support (MHs)

$

1,400,000

Setting up machines (setups)

500,000

Parts administration (part types)

800,000

Total

$

2,700,000

Manual

Power

Machining support: MHs

20,000

50,000

Setting up machines: setups

2,000

500

Parts administration: part types

1,600

400

Required:

  1. Determine the product cost per unit of each of the company's two products under the traditional costing system.
  2. Determine the product cost per unit of each of the company's two products under activity-based costing system.
  3. Which costing system is more accurate? How were the products miss-costed in the less accurate system?

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