Ethics; Predetermined Overhead Rate and Capacity Pat Miranda‚ the new controller of Vault Hard Drives‚ Inc.‚ has just returned from a seminar on the choice of the activity level in the predetermined overhead rate. Even though the subject did not sound exciting at first‚ she found that there were some important ideas presented that should get a hearing at her company. After returning from the seminar‚ she arranged a meeting with the production manager‚ J. Stevens‚ and the assistant production manager
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CHAPTER 3 Predetermined Overhead Rates‚ Flexible Budgets‚ and Absorption/Variable Costing Questions 1. Although both variable and mixed costs change in total with activity measure changes‚ the difference is that variable costs change in direct proportion to such activity changes and mixed costs do not. Since a mixed cost has both a fixed and variable component‚ the cost per unit at different activity levels is not constant as it is with a variable cost. 2. No‚ these are not always the best points
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CASE 3A – AUERBACH ENTERPRISES Auerbach Enterprises manufactures air conditioners for automobiles and trucks manufactured throughout North America. The company designs its products with flexibility to accommodate many makes and models of automobiles and trucks. The company’s two main products are MaxiFlow and Alaska. MaxiFlow uses a few complex fabricated parts‚ but these have been found easy to assemble and test. On the other hand‚ Alaska uses many standard parts but has a complex assembly
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Bridgeton Assignment 1. The overhead allocation rate used in the 1987 model year strategy study at the Automotive Component & Fabrication Plant (ACF) was 435% of direct labor dollar cost. Calculate the overhead allocation rate using the 1987 model year budget. Why do you get different numbers? 2. Calculate the overhead allocation rate for each of the model years 1988 through 1990. Are the changes since 1987 in overhead allocation rates significant? Why have these changes occurred? 3
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Activity-Based Costing to Allocate Overhead Costs The managers at Beneteau Company decided to use activity-based costing to allocate overhead in view of the point that its benefits would surpass the cost. With ABC‚ This costing use different cost groups which are organized according to different activities to allocate overhead costs. The production and maintenance of the product includes all activities such as purchasing materials‚ inventory management‚ assembling parts and verifying final products
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Case 3-29 Plantwide versus Departmental Overhead Rates; Underapplied or Overapplied Overhead 1. a. Predetermined Overhead rate= Estimated total manufacturing overhead costs Estimated total amount of allocation base | = $1‚440‚000 = 160% of direct labor costs $900‚000 direct labor costs | b. Hastings Job Direct Labor -Allocation
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1. A company uses a predetermined overhead recovery rate based on machine hours. Budgeted factory overhead for a year amounted to £720 000‚ but actual factory overhead incurred was £738 000. During the year‚ the company absorbed £714 000 of factory overhead on 119 000 actual machine hours. What was the company’s budgeted level of machine hours for the year? A 116098 B 119000
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THE BUSINESS SITUATION Greetings Inc. has operated for many years as a nationally recognized retailer of greeting cards and small gift items. It has 1‚500 stores throughout the United States located in high-traffic malls. As the stock price of many other companies soared‚ Greetings’ stock price remained flat. As a result of a heated 2007 shareholders’ meeting‚ the president of Greetings‚ Robert Burns‚ came under pressure from shareholders to grow Greetings’ stock value. As a consequence
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Manufacturing Overhead Name Institution Manufacturing Overhead Manufacturing overhead costs play a vital role in determining final cost of the product. Manufacturing overhead represents all the costs that the company incurs indirectly and not related to the cost of direct labor‚ direct materials or direct cost of machines (Donald‚ 2010). In short‚ companies are not able to trace these costs to individual items during the manufacturing process. Examples of overhead costs
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This is an introductory case‚ and yet it introduces a powerful new approach for building an ABC model. Considerable theory is illustrated in how we build the Sippican time-driven ABC (TDABC) model. Also‚ the (B) case introduces an important link‚ previously recognized but not exploited‚ in how to embed an ABC model into the budgeting process‚ replacing line-item budgeting with an integrated‚ analytic approach. The case discussion provides insight and confidence about the feasibility of building a
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