The following information provides details of costs, volume and cost drivers for a particular period in respect of ABC plc, a hypothetical company: (5 Marks)

Details	Product J	Product G	Product P	Total
Direct Material Cost	$25	$20	$11	$12,38,000
Direct Labor Hours	4/3	2	1	88,000
Machine Hours	4/3	1	2	76,000
Direct Labor Cost	$8	$12	$6
No. of production run	3	7	20	30
No. of Deliveries	9	3	20	32
No. of Receipts (2*7)	15	35	220	270
No. of production orders	15	10	25	50
Production and sales units	30,000	20,000	8,000
Raw material usage units	5	5	11

The total overhead costs is $18,48,000.

Set-up 1.623377%, Machines 41.125541%, Receiving 23.538961%, Packing 13.528139% and Engineering 20.183983% of total overhead costs.

The company operates a just-in-time inventory policy, and receives each component once per production per run.

In the past the company has allocated overheads to products on the basis of direct labor hours.

However, the majority of overheads are more closely related to machine hours than direct labor hours.

The company has recently redesigned its cost system by recovering overheads using two volume-related bases: machine hours and materials handling overhead rate for recovering overheads of the receiving department. Both the current and previous cost system reported low profit margins of the product J, which is companys highest-selling product. The management accountant has recently attended a conference on activity based costing, and the overheads cost for the last period have been analyzed by the major activities in order to compute activity based costs.

From the above information you are required:

1. Compute the product costs using traditional volume related cost system based on assumption that:

1. All overheads are recovered on the basis of direct labor hours (i.e. the companys past product costing system);
2. The overheads of the receiving department are recovered by materials handling overhead rate and the remaining overheads are recovered using a machine hour rate (i.e. the companys current costing system).

2. Compute product cost using an ABC system.