Assignment 1
2018 Due date: 5pm (Sydney time), April 10 2018
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Q1.
Petral Ltd. Manufactures 2 products, W and Z using the same factory and facilities. Details provided below:
| Product line | Vol of production | Material (direct) cost per unit | Direct labour per unit | Machine time per unit | Labour cost per unit |
| W | 600 | $6 | 0.75 hour | 0.5 hour | $4 |
| Z | 7100 | $18 | 1.25 hours | 1.75 hours | $10 |
Production overhead is comprised of the following costs:
| Description of cost | Amount | ||
| Factory overhead related to machine activity | $42,725 | ||
| Set-up costs | $8,725 | ||
| Cost of handling materials | $11,725 | ||
| Administration costs for spare parts | $12,725 |
The firm uses a plant-wide overhead rate based on Machine hours of $5.97 per machine hour.
However, an investigation of the activities (in addition to machine hours) that drive costs at the product-line level revealed the following relationships:
| Product line | No. of set-ups | No. of times material was handled | No. of spare parts |
| W | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Z | 9 | 13 | 5 |
Required:
- Verify the firm’s plant-wide rate of $5.97 per machine hour. Show all relevant calculations. (2 marks)
- Compute all appropriate overhead rates using activity based costing. Round off all individual overhead rates to two decimal places. Show all relevant calculations. (2.8 marks)
- Apply (1) and (2) to 2 product lines: that is, calculate the amount of overhead that should be allocated to Product-lines W and Z under the plant-wide rate and ABC rates. Show all relevant calculations. (4.8 marks)
- Compare the overhead allocations to product lines W and Z. (14.4 marks)
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