Home Insert Page Layout Formulas Data Review View Cause-and-Effect Relationship Between Allocation Base and Activity Cost Standard Job Special Job Total 2 Number of printing jobs 3 Price per job 4 Cost of supplies per job 5 Direct labor costs per job 6 Printing machine-hours per job 7 Cost of printing machine operations 400 200 $ 600 $ 100 $ 90 $ 750 $ 125 $ 100 10 10 $ 75,000 Indirect costs of operating printing machines increase with printing machine-hours 9 Setup-hours per job 10 Setup costs 11 Total number of purchase orders 12 Purchase order costs 4 $ 45,000 Indirect setup costs increase with setup-hours 400 500 $ 18,000 Indirect purchase order costs increase with number of purchase orders $ 20,000 Design costs are allocated to standard and special jobs based on a special study of the design |department 13 14 Design costs $4,000 $16,000 15 Marketing costs as a percentage of 16 revenues $ 19,500 $ 24,000 Demand for administrative resources increases with direct labor costs 5% 5% 17 Administration costs

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Speediprint Corporation owns a small printing press that prints leaflets, brochures, and advertising materials. Speediprint classifies its various printing jobs as standard jobs or special jobs. Speediprint’s simple job-costing system has two direct-cost categories (direct materials and direct labor) and a single indirect-cost pool. Speediprint operates at capacity and allocates all indirect costs using printing machine-hours as the allocation base. Speediprint is concerned about the accuracy of the costs assigned to standard and special jobs and therefore is planning to implement an activity-based costing system. Speediprint’s ABC system would have the same direct-cost categories as its simple costing system. However, instead of a single indirectcost pool there would now be six categories for assigning indirect costs: design, purchasing, setup, printing machine operations, marketing, and administration. To see how activity-based costing would affect the costs of standard and special jobs, Speediprint collects the following information for the fiscal year 2017 that just ended.

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Q.How might Speediprint use the new cost information from its activity-based costing system to better manage its business?

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Cause-and-Effect Relationship Between
Allocation Base and Activity Cost
Standard Job Special Job
Total
2 Number of printing jobs
3 Price per job
4 Cost of supplies per job
5 Direct labor costs per job
6 Printing machine-hours per job
7 Cost of printing machine operations
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$ 600
$ 100
$ 90
$ 750
$ 125
$ 100
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$ 75,000 Indirect costs of operating printing machines
increase with printing machine-hours
9 Setup-hours per job
10 Setup costs
11 Total number of purchase orders
12 Purchase order costs
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$ 45,000 Indirect setup costs increase with setup-hours
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$ 18,000 Indirect purchase order costs increase with
number of purchase orders
$ 20,000 Design costs are allocated to standard and special
jobs based on a special study of the design
|department
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14 Design costs
$4,000
$16,000
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Marketing costs as a percentage of
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revenues
$ 19,500
$ 24,000 Demand for administrative resources increases
with direct labor costs
5%
5%
17 Administration costs
Transcribed Image Text:Home Insert Page Layout Formulas Data Review View Cause-and-Effect Relationship Between Allocation Base and Activity Cost Standard Job Special Job Total 2 Number of printing jobs 3 Price per job 4 Cost of supplies per job 5 Direct labor costs per job 6 Printing machine-hours per job 7 Cost of printing machine operations 400 200 $ 600 $ 100 $ 90 $ 750 $ 125 $ 100 10 10 $ 75,000 Indirect costs of operating printing machines increase with printing machine-hours 9 Setup-hours per job 10 Setup costs 11 Total number of purchase orders 12 Purchase order costs 4 $ 45,000 Indirect setup costs increase with setup-hours 400 500 $ 18,000 Indirect purchase order costs increase with number of purchase orders $ 20,000 Design costs are allocated to standard and special jobs based on a special study of the design |department 13 14 Design costs $4,000 $16,000 15 Marketing costs as a percentage of 16 revenues $ 19,500 $ 24,000 Demand for administrative resources increases with direct labor costs 5% 5% 17 Administration costs
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