Read the cases and find out the following required information. Required: 1 Calculate the material handling rate that would have been used by Eloise Smith's predecessor at East Coast Marine. 2 (a)...

Read the cases and find out the following required information.
Required: 1 Calculate the material handling rate that would have been used by Eloise Smith's predecessor at East Coast Marine. 2 (a) Calculate the revised material handling costs to be allocated on a per purchase order basis. (b) Discuss why purchase orders might be a more reliable cost driver than the dollar amount of direct material. 3 Calculate the difference due to the change to the new method of allocating material handling costs to government contracts. 4 Prepare a forecast of the cumulative dollar impact over a three-year period (based on the coming year plus 2 more years) of Eloise Smith's recommended change for allocating Material Handling Department costs to the Government Contracts Unit. Round all calculations to the nearest whole number. 5 Referring to the standards of ethical conduct for accountants described in Chapter 1: (a) Discuss why Eloise Smith has an ethical conflict. (b) Identify several steps that Smith could take to resolve the ethical conflict.
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Required: I Describe the changes in cost structure that are likely to have occurred at Cravings for Cakes over the last 20 years, and explain their causes. 2 Do you think that the existing costing system understates or overstates the cost of: (a) Lamington? (b) Danish pastry? Explain your answers. 3 Explain how activitybased costing could overcome the deficiencies inherent in the existing costing system. 4 What factors should U.B. Bright consider when deciding whether to use: (a) Simple activitybased costing system to assign manufacturing overhead to products? lb) Activity-based system that includes both manufacturing overhead and non-manufacturing costs? Cc) Comprehensive activity-based system that includes all product-related costs except direct material?