Activity Based Costing

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Pure Cane Sugar Company manufactures three products (white sugar, brown sugar, and powdered sugar) in a continuous production process. Senior management has asked the controller to conduct an activity-based costing study. The controller identified the amount of factory overhead required by the critical activities of the organization as follows:

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The activity bases identified for each activity are as follows:

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The activity-base usage quantities and units produced for the three products were determined from corporate records and are as follows:

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Each product requires 0.25 machine hour per unit.

Required:

1.  Determine the activity rate for each activity.

Activity Rate
Production $ /mh
Setup $ /setup
Inspection $ /insp.
Shipping $ /cust. ord.
Customer Service $ /req.

2.  Determine the total and per-unit activity costs for all three products. Round “Activity cost per unit” answers to two decimal places.

White Sugar Brown Sugar Powdered Sugar
Total activity cost $ $ $
Activity cost per uni
0
  Production Setup Inspection Shipping Customer
Service
Total activity cost 247500 48000 12500 69300 27600
 Devided by Total activity base 4500 200 500 2310 345
Activity rate… 55 240 25 30 80

 

White Sugar
Acitivity Activity
Base
usage
x Activity
rate
,=activity
cost
Production 2000 55 110000
Setup 50 240 12000
Inspection 100 25 2500
Shipping 410 30 12300
Customer
Service
25 80 2000
Total Activity cost 138800
Devided  byUnits 8000
Cost Per unit 17.35

 

 

Brown Sugar
Acitivity Activity
Base
usage
x Activity
rate
,=activity
cost
Production 1250 55 68750
Setup 70 240 16800
Inspection 160 25 4000
Shipping 1100 30 33000
Customer
Service
200 80 16000
Total Activity cost 138550
Devided  byUnits 5000
Cost Per unit 27.71

 

 

Powder Sugar
Acitivity Activity
Base
usage
x Activity
rate
,=activity
cost
Production 1250 55 68750
Setup 80 240 19200
Inspection 240 25 6000
Shipping 800 30 24000
Customer
Service
120 80 9600
Total Activity cost 127550
Devided  byUnits 5000
Cost Per unit 25.51

 

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