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Exercise 5-29 (parts a-b) (5-pts) At its manufacturing plant in Duluth, Minnesot

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Question

Exercise 5-29 (parts a-b) (5-pts) At its manufacturing plant in Duluth, Minnesota, Endo Electronics Company manufactures two products, X21 and Y37 For many years, the company has used a simple plant wide manufacturing support cost rate based on direct labor hours. A new plant accountant suggested that the company may be able to assign support costs to products more accurately by using an activity-based costing system that relies on a separate rate for each manufacturing activity that causes support costs. After studying the plant's manufacturing activities and costs, the plan accountant has collected the following data for last year: Item X21 Y37 Units produced and sold Direct labor hours used Direct labor cost Number of times handled Number of parts Number of design changes Number of product setups 100,000 300,000 $1,000,000 $4,500,000 20,000 8,000 1,000 6,000 0,000 100,000 40,000 12,000 2,000 8,000 The accountant has also determined that actual manufacturing support costs incurred last year were as follows: Cost Pool Handlin Number of parts Design changes Setups Total Activity Costs $3,000,000 2,400,000 3,300,000 2,800,000 $11,500,000 The direct materials cost for product X21 is $120 per unit, while for product Y37 it is $140 per unit. Required a) Determine the unit cost of each product using direct labor hours to allocate all manufacturing support costs b) Determine the unit cost of each product using activity-based costing.

Explanation / Answer

Solution:

Part a – Unit Cost of each product using direct labor hours to allocate all manufacturing support costs

First of all we need to calculate the Plant-wide Overhead Rate using Direct labor hour.

Plant-wide Overhead Rate = Total Estimated Manufacturing Costs / Estimated Total Direct Labor Hours

= $11,500,000 / (100,000 + 300,000)

= $28.75 per direct labor hour

Unit Cost of Each Product

X21

Y37

Direct Material Cost per unit

$120.00

$140.00

Direct labor cost per unit

Product X21 = Total Direct labor cost $1,000,000 / Direct labor hours used 100,000)

$10.00

Product X37 = Total Direct labor cost $4,500,000 / Direct labor hours used 300,000)

$15.00

Applied Manufacturing Overhead (Refer Note 1)

$57.50

$86.25

Unit Product Cost

$187.50

$241.25

Note 1 --- Applied Manufacturing Overhead per unit

Product X21

Applied Manufacturing Overhead Per Unit = Direct labor hours per unit x Overhead Rate

Direct labor hour per unit = Total labor hours used / Units produced and sold

= 100,000 / 50,000

= 2 Hours Per Unit

Applied Manufacturing Overhead Per Unit = Direct labor hours per unit 2 x Overhead Rate $28.75

= $57.50

Product Y37

Direct labor hour per unit = Total labor hours used / Units produced and sold

= 300,000 / 100,000

= 3 Hours Per Unit

Applied Manufacturing Overhead Per Unit = Direct labor hours per unit 3 x Overhead Rate $28.75

= $57.50

Part b --- Unit Cost using activity based costing

X21

Y37

Direct Material Cost per unit

$120.00

$140.00

Direct labor cost per unit

Product X21 = Total Direct labor cost $1,000,000 / Direct labor hours used 100,000)

$10.00

Product X37 = Total Direct labor cost $4,500,000 / Direct labor hours used 300,000)

$15.00

Applied Manufacturing Overhead (Refer Note 2)

$144.80

$42.60

Unit Product Cost

$274.80

$197.60

Note 2 – Overhead Cost per Unit assigned to each product

X21

Y37

Cost Pool

Total Estimated Overhead Cost (A)

Total Activity of Cost Driver (B)

Activity Rate per Activity (C = A/B)

Expected Activity (H)

Overhead Assigned (C*H)

Activity Driver USAGE (S)

Overhead Assigned (C*S)

Handling

$3,000,000

60000

Number of times handled

$50

per handling

40000

$2,000,000

20000

$1,000,000

Number of parts

$2,400,000

20000

Number of parts

$120

per part

12000

$1,440,000

8000

$960,000

Design Changes

$3,300,000

3000

Number of design changes

$1,100

per design

2000

$2,200,000

1000

$1,100,000

Setups

$2,800,000

14000

Number of product setups

$200

per setup

8000

$1,600,000

6000

$1,200,000

Total Assigned Overhead Costs (A)

$11,500,000

$7,240,000

$4,260,000

Units Produced (B)

50,000 Units

100,000 Units

Overhead Cost per Unit (A / B)

$144.80

$42.60

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X21

Y37

Direct Material Cost per unit

$120.00

$140.00

Direct labor cost per unit

Product X21 = Total Direct labor cost $1,000,000 / Direct labor hours used 100,000)

$10.00

Product X37 = Total Direct labor cost $4,500,000 / Direct labor hours used 300,000)

$15.00

Applied Manufacturing Overhead (Refer Note 1)

$57.50

$86.25

Unit Product Cost

$187.50

$241.25