Question No.4
Feri Corporation makes a single product. A fire resistant commercial filling cabinet that it sells to office furniture distributors. The company has simple ABC system that it use for internal decision making. The company has two overheads departments whose costs are listed below;
Manufacturing Over head $ 500,000
Selling & Admin overhead $ 300,000
Total overhead Costs $ 800,000
The company ABC’s system has the following activity cost pools and activity measures;
Activity Costs Pool Activity Measures
Assembling Units……………………… Number of Units
Processing Order ……………………… Number of Orders
Supporting Customer …………………. Number of Customers
Others…………………………………. Not applicable
Costs assigned to the “others” activity cost pool have no activity measures; they consist of the costs of unused capacity and organization - sustaining cost- neither of which are assigned to products. Orders or customers.
The company distribute the cost of manufacturing overhead and selling admin overhead to the activity cost pools based on employees interviews, the results of which are reported below:
Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activity Cost pools
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Assembling Units
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Processing Orders
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Supporting Customers
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Others
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Total
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Manufacturing Overhead
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50%
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35%
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05%
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10%
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100%
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Selling & Admin overhead
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10%
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45%
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25%
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20%
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100%
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Total Activity
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1000 units
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250 orders
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100 customers
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Required
- Perform the 1st
stage allocation of overhead costs to the activity cost pools.
- Compute the activity rates for the activity costs pools.
- Office mart is one of ferris corporation’s customer, last year office mart ordered filling cabinets four different times , office mart ordered a total of 100 filing cabinets during the years, overhead cost of these, 100 units and five orders.
- The selling price of a filling cabinet $ 595, the cost of direct materials is $ 180 per filing cabinet, And direct labour is $ 50 per filling cabinet what is the product margin on the 100 filling cabinets ordered by office mart? How profitable is office mart as a customer?
Note :just solve part 4.
Extracted text: Question No.4 Feri Corporation makes a single product. A fire resistant commercial filing cabinet that it sells to office furniture distributors. The company has simple ABC system that it use for internal decision making. The company has two overheads departments whose costs are listed below; Manufacturing Over head Selling & Admin overhead Total overhead Costs S 500,000 S300.000 The company ABC's system has the following activity cost pools and activity measures, Activity Costs Pool Assembling Units. Processing Order Supporting Customer. Activity Measures Number of Units Number of Orders Number of Customers Others. Not applicable Costs assigned to the "others" activity cost pool have no activity measures; they consist of the costs of unused capacity and organization - sustaining cost- neither of which are assigned to products. Orders or customers. The company distribute the cost of manufacturing overhead and selling admin overhead to the activity cost pools based on employees interviews, the results of which are reported below: Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activity Cost pools Others Assembling Units 50% Processing Supporting Castomers 05% 25% 100 customers Total Orders Manufacturing Overhead Selling & Admin overhead Total Activity 35% 45% 250 onders 10% 100% 10% 20% 100% 1000 units Required 1. Perform the 1" stage allocation of overhead costs to the activity cost pools. 2. Compute the activity rates for the activity costs pools. 3. Office mart is one of ferris corporation's customer, last year office mart ordered filling cabinets four different times, office mart ordered a total of 100 filing cabinets during the years, overhead cost of these, 100 units and five orders. 4. The selling price of a filling cabinet S 595, the cost of direct materials is $ 180 per filing cabinet, And direct labour is $ 50 per filling cabinet what is the product margin on the 100 filling cabinets ordered by office mart? How profitable is office mart as a customer?