Budgeting and quality costs
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A.) Jones, Inc. expects to sell 12,000 units.
Each unit requires:
4 pounds of direct material at $8 per pound
1 direct labor hour at $10 per direct labor hour
The manufacturing overhead rate is $8 per direct labor hour.
The beginning inventories are as follows:
Direct materials: 3,000 pounds
Finished goods: 1,500 units
The planned ending inventories are as follows:
Direct materials: 6,000 pounds
Finished goods: 2,000 units
Required:
1. What is the planned production?
2. What are the required direct material purchases for the planned production?
B.)Brown Corporation produces ignition equipment and programs for small equipment manufacturers. One of the most important parts of the company's new just-in-time production process is quality control. Initially, a traditional cost accounting system was used to assign quality control costs to products. All of the costs of the Quality Control Department were included in the plant's overhead cost rate and allocated to products based on direct labor dollars. Recently, the firm implemented an activity-based costing system. The activities, cost drivers, and rates for the quality control function are summarized below, along with cost allocation information from the traditional system. Also shown is information related to one order of the Speedy line.
Traditional Costing Approach:
Quality control costs were assigned at a rate of 14% of direct labor dollars.
Order Speedy 7:
Charged with $15,000 of direct labor costs.
Activity-Based Approach for the Quality Control Function:
Activities
Cost Drivers
Cost
Assignment
Rates
Order Speedy 7
Activity Usage
Incoming
Materials Inspection
Type of
material used
$15.75 per
type of
material
10 types of material
In-Process
Inspection
Number of
products
$0.95 per
product
600 products
Tool and Gauge
Control
Number of
processes
per cell
$7 per
process
21 processes
Product
Certification
Per order
$65 per order
1 order
Required:
1. Compute the quality control cost that would be assigned to the Ace order under both the traditional approach and the activity-based costing approach to cost assignment.
2. What was the impact on the costs assigned to the Ace order as a result of shifting to the activity-based costing approach?
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