Sheridan Publishing identified the following overhead
activities, their respective costs, and their cost drivers to
produce the three types of textbooks the company
publishes.
Type of Textbook | |||||||||
Activity (Cost) | Cost Driver | Deluxe | Moderate | Economy | |||||
Machine maintenance ($360,000) | Number of machine hours | 300 | 900 | 1,200 | |||||
Setups ($620,000) | Number of setups | 35 | 10 | 5 | |||||
Packing ($164,000) | Number of cartons | 10 | 40 | 50 | |||||
Photo development ($560,000) | Number of pictures | 4,000 | 2,000 | 1,000 | |||||
Deluxe textbooks are made with the finest-quality paper, six-color
printing, and many photographs. Moderate texts are made with three
colors and a few photographs spread throughout each chapter.
Economy books are printed in black and white and include pictures
only in chapter openings.
Required
Sheridan currently allocates all overhead costs based on machine hours. The company produced the following number of books during the prior year:
Deluxe | Moderate | Economy |
60,000 | 180,000 | 240,000 |
Determine the overhead cost per book for each book type.
Determine the overhead cost per book, assuming that the volume-based allocation system described in Requirement a is replaced with an activity-based costing system.
Deluxe | Moderate | Economy | ||||||||||
(a) | Cost per book (Volume - Based allocation) | $ 3.55 | $ 3.55 | $ 3.55 | ||||||||
(b) | Cost per book (Activity - Based Costing) | $ 13.59 | $ 2.69 | $ 1.68 | ||||||||
Workings: | ||||||||||||
Volume - Based allocation: | ||||||||||||
Predetermined overhead rate | = | ($360000 + $620000 + $164000 + $560000)/2400 machine hours | ||||||||||
= | $ 710 | |||||||||||
Deluxe | Moderate | Economy | Total | |||||||||
(i) | Number of machine hours | 300 | 900 | 1200 | 2400 | |||||||
(ii) | Predetermined overhead rate | $ 710 | $ 710 | $ 710 | ||||||||
(iii) = (i) * (ii) | Total Cost | $ 2,13,000 | $ 6,39,000 | $ 8,52,000 | 1704000 | |||||||
Number of books | 60000 | 180000 | 240000 | 480000 | ||||||||
Cost per book | $ 3.55 | $ 3.55 | $ 3.55 | |||||||||
Activity - Based Costing: | ||||||||||||
Machine maintenance | Setups | Packing | Photo development | Total cost | Number of books | Cost per book | ||||||
Cost Driver | Cost | Cost Driver | Cost | Cost Driver | Cost | Cost Driver | Cost | |||||
(i) | ($360000/2400)*(i) | (ii) | ($620000/50)*(ii) | (iii) | ($164000/100)*(iii) | (iv) | ($560000/7000)*(iv) | (v) | (vi) | (v) / (vi) | ||
Deluxe | 300 | $ 45,000 | 35 | $ 4,34,000 | 10 | $ 16,400 | 4000 | $ 3,20,000 | $ 8,15,400 | 60000 | $ 13.59 | |
Moderate | 900 | $ 1,35,000 | 10 | $ 1,24,000 | 40 | $ 65,600 | 2000 | $ 1,60,000 | $ 4,84,600 | 180000 | $ 2.69 | |
Economy | 1200 | $ 1,80,000 | 5 | $ 62,000 | 50 | $ 82,000 | 1000 | $ 80,000 | $ 4,04,000 | 240000 | $ 1.68 | |
Total | 2400 | $ 3,60,000 | 50 | $ 6,20,000 | 100 | $ 1,64,000 | 7000 | $ 5,60,000 | $ 17,04,000 | 480000 |
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