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Exercise 4-8 Computing ABC Product Costs [LO4-2, LO4-3]

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Performance Products Corporation makes two products, titanium Rims and Posts. Data regarding the two products follow:

   

	Direct Labor-Hours per unit	Annual Production
Rims	0.30	27,000 units
Posts	0.50	75,000 units

Additional information about the company follows:

1. Rims require $12 in direct materials per unit, and Posts require $10.
2. The direct labor wage rate is $20 per hour.
3. Rims are more complex to manufacture than Posts and they require special equipment.
4. The ABC system has the following activity cost pools:

		Estimated Activity
Activity Cost Pool	Activity Measure	Estimated Overhead Cost		Rims	Posts	Total
Machine setups	Number of setups	$	30,000	100	50	150
Special processing	Machine-hours	$	121,500	6,000	0	6,000
General factory	Direct labor-hours	$	756,000	9,000	45,000	54,000

Exercise 4-8 Part 1

Required:

1. Compute the activity rate for each activity cost pool. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

1 machine setups per setup

special processing per MH

General factory per DLH

Answer 1

Activity cost pool	Estimated Overhead		Activity rate
Machine setups	$30,000	150	$200 ($30,000/150)
Special processing	121,500	6,000	20.25 (121,500/6,000)
General factory	756,000	54,000	14 (756,000/54,000)