Trendy Toys & Games, Inc. manufactures specialty toys. Trendy uses a traditional product costing system to assign overhead costs uniformly to all products. To meet industry safety standards and to assure its customers of safe and durable toys, Trendy assigns its quality-control overhead costs to all products at a rate of 20% of direct labor costs. Its direct labor cost for the month of August for its toddler line of toys is $297,000. In response to repeated requests from its financial vice president, Trendys management agrees to adopt activity-based costing. Data relating to the toddler line of toys for the month of August are as follows:

Activity Cost Pools		Cost Drivers		Overhead Rate		Number of Cost Drivers Used per Activity
Materials Inspection pounds		Number of pounds		$0.60 per pound		44,000
Assembly Line Inspection		Number of finished toys		$0.16 per toy		192,000 toys
National Toy Association Certification		Retail orders		$2.00 per order		600 orders

(a)

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Compute the quality-control overhead cost to be assigned to the toddler toy line for the month of August (1) using the traditional product costing system (direct labor is the cost driver), and (2) using activity-based costing.

		Quality-Control Overhead Cost
Traditional costing		$
Activity-based costing		$

(b)

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By what amount does the traditional product costing system undercost or overcost the toddler toy line?

The traditional product costing system overcostsundercost overhead by $ .

(c)

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Classify each of the activities as value-added or not-value added.

Materials Inspection		Value-addedNon-value added
Assembly Line Inspection		Value-addedNon-value added
National Toy Association		Value-addedNon-value added

(d)

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Trendy Toys is exploring options to help reduce overhead costs especially for non-value added activities. One of the proposals is from the National Toy Association. For an additional $1 per order, this entity could perform additional safety checks that would reduce the assembly line inspection costs by $0.01 per toy. Compute the overhead cost assigned to the toddler toy line for the month of August using activity-based costing under this proposal.

Overhead cost assigned

$

Should Trendy Toys accept the National Toy Associations offer?

Trendy Toys not accept this offer.