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STAGE TWO: Identify cost drivers appropriate to each activity and allocate
overhead to the products.
To get a better understanding of the two stages, we can use an
example of Patio Grill company.
The costs and necessary details are given the chat below.
Overhead costs
Total budgeting costs- 4,896,000$
Activit
y
Cost
Pools
UNIT LEVEL
BATCH LEVEL
Product-sustaining level
Machine related
cost pool
$1,242,000
Setup cost
pool$210,000
Facility level
Facility cost pool
$2,300,000
Purchasi
ng cost
pool$300,000
Materialhandling
cost pool
$340,000
Quality
Assurance
cost pool
$110,000
These are the various activities that are identified in Patio Grill
Company in stage one and in stage two, each activitys cost drivers
are identified for each cost pool.
Activity
Activity
cost pool
Cost
driver
Cost
Pool
driver
rate
quantity
Product Cost
line
driver
quantity
for
product
line
$5.40 Std
100000
Del
Ult
total
96000
34000
230000
Activity
cost for
product
line
Product
line
production
volume
$540000 10000
$54
518100 8000
183600 2000
1242000
64.80
91.80
ABC CALCULATIONS
First we will calculate pool rate for the machine related activity.
FORMULA Activity cost pool / Cost driver quantity = pool rate
Substituting the values in the equation
$ 1242000/230000 = $5.40
Now well compute the total activity cost for each product line
Product line
Pool rate
STD
DEL
ULT
$5.40
$5.40
$5.40
Cost driver
quantity for
each product
line
100000
96000
34000
Activity
cost
per
unit of
product
Lastly the product cost per unit for each product line will be
calculated
FORMULA- Activity cost per product line/product line production
volume
Product line
STD
DEL
ULT
Product line
production
volume
10000
8000
2000
Activity cost
per unit of
product
$54
64.80
91.80