ABC AND FLEXIBLE BUDGET

New Corporation manufactures two products, Product B and Product H. Product H is of fairly
recent origin, having been developed as an attempt to enter a market closely related to that of
Product B. Product H is the more complex of the two products, requiring two hours of direct
labor time per unit to manufacture compared to one hour of direct labor time for Product B.
Product H is produced on an automated production line.

Overhead is currently assigned to the products on the basis of direct-labor hours. The company
estimated it would incur P450,000 in manufacturing overhead costs and produce 7,500 units of
Product H and 30,000 units of Product B during the current year. Unit costs for materials and
direct labor are:

Product B Product H
Direct material ..... P12 P25
Direct labor ........ P10 P20

Required:

1. Compute the predetermined overhead rate under the current method of allocation and
determine the unit product cost of each product for the current year.

2. The company's overhead costs can be attributed to four major activities. These activities
and the amount of overhead cost attributable to each for the current year are given below:

Estimated Expected Activity

Overhead Product Product
Activity Cost Pools Costs B H Total
Machine setups required ... P180,000 600 1,200 1,800
Purchase orders issued .... 38,382 500 100 600
Machine-hours required .... 92,650 6,800 10,200 17,000
Maintenance requests issued 138,968 693 907 1,600
P450,000

Using the data above and an activity-based costing approach, determine the unit product cost of each
product for the current year.

The Dillon Company makes and sells a single product and uses a flexible budget for overhead to plan and
control overhead costs. Overhead costs are applied on the basis of direct labor-hours. The standard cost card
shows that 5 direct labor-hours are required per unit. The Dillon Company had the following budgeted and
actual data for March:

Actual Budgeted
Units produced ............... 33,900 30,800
Direct labor-hours ........... 161,800 154,000
Variable overhead costs ...... $140,500 $123,200
Fixed overhead costs ......... $80,000 $77,000
53.
B
Medium
The variable overhead spending variance for March is:
a. $4,900 U.
b. $11,060 U.
c. $14,700 U.
d. $17,300 U.

54.
D
Medium
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The variable overhead efficiency variance for March is:

a. $12,400 F.
b. $6,160 U.
c. $12,400 U.
d. $6,160 F.

55.
C
Medium
The fixed overhead budget variance for March is:
a. $900 F.
b. $3,900 F.
c. $3,000 U.
d. $7,750 F.

56.
A
Medium
The fixed overhead volume variance for March is:
a. $7,750 F.
b. $7,750 U.
c. $1,550 F
d. $3,900 U.

Fly Corporation manufactures two products, Product A and Product B. Product B is of fairly
recent origin, having been developed as an attempt to enter a market closely related to that of
Product A. Product B is the more complex of the two products, requiring three hours of direct
labor time per unit to manufacture compared to one and one-half hours of direct labor time for
Product A. Product B is produced on an automated production line.

Overhead is currently assigned to the products on the basis of direct-labor hours. The company
estimated it would incur P396,000 in manufacturing overhead costs and produce 5,500 units of
Product B and 22,000 units of Product A during the current year. Unit costs for materials and
direct labor are:

Product A Product B
Direct material ...... P9 P20
Direct labor ......... P7 P15
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Required:

1. Compute the predetermined overhead rate under the current method of allocation and
determine the unit product cost of each product for the current year.
2. The company's overhead costs can be attributed to four major activities. These activities
and the amount of overhead cost attributable to each for the current year are given below:

Estimated Expected Activity

Overhead Product Product
Activity Cost Pools Costs A B Total
Machine setups required ... P170,000 700 1,000 1,700
Purchase orders issued .... 37,000 300 200 500
Machine-hours required .... 91,000 4,000 9,000 13,000
Maintenance requests issued 98,000 400 600 1,000
P396,000

Using the data above and an activity-based costing approach, determine the unit product cost of each
product for the current year.

EM Corporation manufactures two products, Product S and Product W. Product W is of fairly

recent origin, having been developed as an attempt to enter a market closely related to that of
Product W. Product W is the more complex of the two products, requiring one hour of direct
labor time per unit to manufacture compared to one-half hour of direct labor time for Product S.
Product W is produced on an automated production line.
Overhead is currently assigned to the products on the basis of direct-labor hours. The company
estimated it would incur P500,000 in manufacturing overhead costs and produce 10,000 units of
Product W and 60,000 units of Product S during the current year. Unit cost for materials and
direct labor are:

Product S Product W
Direct material .... P10 P24
Direct labor ....... P 8 P12

Required:

1. Compute the predetermined overhead rate under the current method of allocation and
determine the unit product cost of each product for the current year.
2. The company's overhead costs can be attributed to four major activities. These activities
and the amount of overhead cost attributable to each for the current year are given below:

Estimated Expected Activity

Overhead Product Product
Activity Cost Pools Costs S W Total
Machine setups required .. P200,000 800 1,200 2,000
Purchase orders issued ... 43,500 500 100 600
Machine-hours required ... 104,000 3,000 10,000 13,000
Maintenance requests
issued ................ 152,500 860 1,140 2,000
P500,000

Using the data above and an activity-based costing approach, determine the unit product cost of each
product for the current year.
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A manufacturing company has a standard costing system based on machine-hours (MHs) as the measure of
activity. Data from the company's flexible budget for manufacturing overhead are given below:

Denominator level of activity ................. 6,100 MHs

Overhead costs at the denominator activity level:
Variable overhead cost ...................... $35,075
Fixed overhead cost ......................... $77,775

The following data pertain to operations for the most recent period:

Actual hours .................................. 6,300 MHs

Standard hours allowed for the actual output .. 5,994 MHs
Actual total variable overhead cost ........... $36,540
Actual total fixed overhead cost .............. $76,875
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2. The overhead rates are computed as follows:

Estimated Total
Overhead Expected
Activity Cost Pools Costs Activity Rate
Machine setups ..... P200,000 2,000 P100.00/setup
Purchase orders .... 43,500 600 72.50/order
Machine-hours ...... 104,000 13,000 8.00/hour
Maintenance requests 152,500 2,000 76.25/request
P500,000

The overhead cost attributable to each product is:

Product S Product W
Activity Amount Activity Amount
Machine setups,
P100.00/setup...... 800 P 80,000 1,200 P120,000
Purchase orders,
P72.50/order....... 500 36,250 100 7,250
Machine-hours,
P8.00/hour......... 3,000 24,000 10,000 80,000
Maintenance request,
at P76.25/request.. 860 65,575 1,140 86,925
P205,825 P294,175

Overhead cost per unit:

Product S: P205,825  60,000 units = P3.4304/unit.

Product W: P294,175  10,000 units = P29.4175/unit.

Using activity-based costing, the unit product cost of each product would be:

Product S Product W
Direct materials .............. P10.0000 P24.0000
Direct labor .................. 8.0000 12.0000
Manufacturing overhead ........ 3.4304 29.4175
Total unit product cost .... P21.4304 P65.4175

Dab Company manufactures two products, Product F and Product G. The company expects to
produce and sell 1,400 units of Product F and 1,800 units of Product G during the current year.
The company uses activity-based costing to compute unit product costs for external reports. Data
relating to the company’s three activity cost pools are given below for the current year:

Estimated
Activity Overhead Expected Activity
Cost Pool Costs Product F Product G Total
Machine setups P10,800 80 100 180
Purchase orders P77,520 510 1,010 1,520
General factory P75,920 2,240 3,600 5,840

Required:

Using the activity-based costing approach, determine the overhead cost per unit for each product.
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The Ferris Company applies manufacturing overhead costs to products on the basis of direct labor hours. The
standard cost card shows that 3 direct labor hours are required per unit of product. For August, the company
budgeted to work 90,000 direct labor hours and to incur the following total manufacturing overhead costs:

Total variable overhead costs ..... $ 99,000

Total fixed overhead costs ........ $118,800

During August, the company completed 28,000 units of product, worked 86,000 direct labor hours, and
incurred the following total manufacturing overhead costs:

Total variable overhead costs ....... $ 98,900

Total fixed overhead costs .......... $115,300

The denominator activity in the predetermined overhead rate is 90,000 direct labor hours.

For August, the variable overhead spending variance is:

B a. $4,300 F.
Medium b. $4,300 U.
Refer To: 11-5 c. $6,500 F.
d. $6,500 U.
For August, the variable overhead efficiency variance is:
C a. $1,800 F.
Medium b. $0.
c. $2,200 U.
d. $2,200 F.
For August, the fixed overhead budget variance is:
A a. $3,500 F.
Medium b. $3,500 U.
c. $3,200 F.
d. $3,200 U.
For August, the fixed overhead volume variance is:
B a. $4,300 U.
Medium b. $7,920 U.
c. $4,980 F.
d. $4,980 U.