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16) EMD 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 2 hours of direct
labor time per unit to manufacture compared to 1 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 $659,973 in manufacturing overhead costs and produce 14,600 units of
Product W and 58,400 units of Product S during the current year. Unit cost for materials and
direct labor are:
Product S Product W
Direct material $ 12 $ 29
Direct labor 7 20
Required:
a. Compute the predetermined overhead rate under the current method of allocation and
determine the unit product cost of each product for the current year. b. 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:
Activity Cost Pool Total Cost Total Activity
Product S Product W Total
Machine setups required $ 255,000 900 1,650 2,550
Purchase orders issued 54,677 565 184 749
Machine-hours required 163,620 7,410 10,770 18,180
Maintenance requests issued 186,676 721 861 1,582
$ 659,973
Using the data above and an activity-based costing approach, determine the unit product cost of
each product for the current year.
17) Boudoin Corporation manufactures two products: Product T72T and Product L34S. It is
considering implementing an activity-based costing (ABC) system that allocates all of its
manufacturing overhead to four cost pools. The following additional information is available for
the company as a whole and for Products T72T and L34S.
Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Total Cost Total Activity
Machining Machine-hours $ 345,000 15,000 MHs