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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Slyvan Company - Activity Based Costing

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Sylvan Company uses activity-based costing to determine product costs for external financial reports. The company's partially completed Manufacturing Overhead T-account for the current year is shown below:
 
Manufacturing Overhead



   (a)            1,302,000




   
At the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates of cost and activity for its five activity cost pools:
 
  Activity Cost Pool
  Activity Measure
Estimated
Overhead Cost
Expected
Activity
  Labor related
  Direct labor-hours

$
280,000

40,000
 DLHs
  Purchase orders
  Number of orders

$
90,000

1,500
 orders
  Parts management
  Number of part types

$
120,000

400
 part types
  Board etching
  Number of boards

$
360,000

2,000
 boards
  General factory
  Machine-hours

$
400,000

80,000
 MHs



Activities during the year were distributed across the company's four products as follows:
 

Actual Activity
  Activity Cost Pool
Product A
Product B
Product C
Product D
  Labor related (DLHs)
5,200      
2,500      
4,000      
5,600      
  Purchase orders (orders)
60      
27      
16      
95      
  Parts management (part types)
25      
21      
35      
11      
  Board etching (boards)
420      
980      
435      
1      
  General factory (MHs)
3,100      
7,800      
5,400      
5,700      



Required:
Compute the amount of overhead cost applied to each product during the year. (Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)
 

Applied Overhead
Activity Cost Pool
Product A
Product B
Product C
Product D
  Labor related (DLHs)
$   
$   
$   
$   
  Purchase orders (orders)
  
  
  
  
  Parts management (part types)
  
  
  
  
  Board etching (boards)
  
  
  
  
  General factory (MHs)
  
  
  
  









  Total
$   
$   
$   
$   



















Worksheet
Difficulty: Basic
Learning Objective: 03-3



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