Elliot Page, Inc. manufactures and sells two products, backpacks and purses. Annual sales in units of each, labor time per unit and total manufacturing time per year are described below:Hours
Backpacks: 2,000 units * 5 hrs 10,000
Purses: 10,000 units * 4 hrs. 40,000
Total hours 50,000
Backpacks Purses
Direct materials $25 $17
Direct labor 30 24
Total overhead $800,000
Breakdown of overhead costs:
Estimated Total Backpacks Purses
Costs Activity
Labor related (labor hours) $ 80,000 50,000 10,000 40,000
Machine setups(# of setups) 150,000 5,000 3,000 2,000
Product testing (# of tests) 160,000 8,000 5,000 3,000
Production orders(# of orders 70,000 400 100 300
Material receipts (# of receipts) 90,000 750 150 600
General factory (machine hrs) 250,000 40,000 12,000 28,000
Try to do the following and we will review in class:
- Determine the overhead that would be used if Elliot Page, Inc. used standard costing
- Determine the product cost for backpacks and purses using the standard rate - total cost per unit.
- Determine the overhead rate for each of the six activity centers
- Determine the amount of overhead allocated to each product using Activity Based osting.
- Determine the overhead cost per unit using Activity Based osting.
- Determine the total cost per unit using Activity Based Costing.