Concept explainers
Refer to Cornerstone Exercise 7.3. Now assume that Valron Company uses the sequential method to allocate support department costs. The support departments are ranked in order of highest cost to lowest cost.
Required:
- 1. Calculate the allocation ratios (rounded to four significant digits) for the four departments using the sequential method.
- 2. Using the sequential method, allocate the costs of the Human Resources and General Factory departments to the Fabricating and Assembly departments. (Round all allocated costs to the nearest dollar.)
- 3. What if the allocation ratios in Requirement 1 were rounded to six significant digits rather than four? How would that affect any rounding error in the allocation of costs?
1.
Calculate the allocation ratios for the four departments using the direct method.
Explanation of Solution
Sequential method of allocation: Sequential method of allocation identifies interactions between the support departments; conversely, the sequential method considers only partial account of this interaction.
Compute the allocation ratios for the four departments:
Proportion of driver used | ||||
Human resources | General factory | Fabricating | Assembly | |
Human resources | (1)0.32 | (2)0.68 | ||
General factory | (3)0.05 | (4)0.285 | (5)0.665 |
Table (1)
Working notes:
(1)Calculate the proportion of employees in fabricating:
(2)Calculate the proportion of employees in assembly:
(3)Calculate the proportion of square feet in human resources:
(4)Calculate the proportion of square feet in fabricating:
(5)Calculate the proportion of square feet in assembly:
2.
Allocate the costs of the human resources and general factory departments to the fabricating and assembly departments.
Explanation of Solution
Allocate the costs of the human resources and general factory departments to the fabricating and assembly departments:
Support Departments | Producing departments | |||
Direct costs | Human resources | General factory | Fabricating department | Assembly department |
Allocate | $160,000 | $340,000 | $114,600 | $93,000 |
General factory | $17,000 | ($340,000) | $96,900 | $226,100 |
Human resources | ($177,000) | $56,640 | $120,360 | |
Total after allocation | $0 | $0 | $268,140 | $439,460 |
Table (2)
Working notes:
(6)Calculate the amount of general factory allocated to human resources:
(7)Calculate the amount of general factory allocated to fabricating department:
(8)Calculate the amount of general factory allocated to assembly department:
(9)Calculate the amount of human resources allocated to fabricating department:
(10)Calculate the amount of human resources allocated to assembly department:
3.
Explain the situation if the allocation ratios in requirement 1 is rounded to six significant digits rather than four and explain the manner in which rounding error is affected in the allocation of cost.
Explanation of Solution
Usually, “rounding the allocation ratios to six significant digits” will produce exact allocation of costs and will “decrease” rounding error. In this situation, all allocation ratios came out efficiently to three significant digits, so rounding to six will not make much difference.
Want to see more full solutions like this?
Chapter 7 Solutions
Cornerstones of Cost Management (Cornerstones Series)
- A manufacturing company has two service and two production departments. Building Maintenance and Factory Office are the service departments. The production departments are Assembly and Machining. The following data have been estimated for next years operations: The direct charges identified with each of the departments are as follows: The building maintenance department services all departments of the company, and its costs are allocated using floor space occupied, while factory office costs are allocable to Assembly and Machining on the basis of direct labor hours. 1. Distribute the service department costs, using the direct method. 2. Distribute the service department costs, using the sequential distribution method, with the department servicing the greatest number of other departments distributed first.arrow_forwardA manufacturing company has two service and two production departments. Human Resources and Machine Repair are the service departments. The production departments are Grinding and Polishing. The following data have been estimated for next years operations: The direct charges identified with each of the departments are as follows: The human resources department services all departments of the company, and its costs are allocated using the numbers of employees within each department, while machine repair costs are allocable to Grinding and Polishing on the basis of machine hours. 1. Distribute the service department costs, using the direct method. 2. Distribute the service department costs, using the sequential distribution method, with the department servicing the greatest number of other departments distributed first.arrow_forwardThe cost behavior patterns below are lettered A through H. The vertical axes of the graphs represent total dollars of expense, and the horizontal axes represent production in units, machine hours, or direct labor hours. In each case, the zero point is at the intersection of the two axes. Each graph may be used no more than once. Required: Select the graph that matches the lettered cost described here. a. Depreciation of equipmentthe amount of depreciation charged is computed based on the number of machine hours that the equipment was operated. b. Electricity billflat fixed charge, plus a variable cost after a certain number of kilowatt hours are used. c. City water billcomputed as follows: d. Depreciation of equipmentthe amount is computed by the straight-line method. e. Rent on a factory building donated by the citythe agreement calls for a fixed fee payment, unless 200,000 labor hours are worked, in which case no rent need be paid. f. Salaries of repair workersone repair worker is needed for every 1,000 machine hours or less (i.e., 0 to 1,000 hours requires one repair worker, 1,001 to 2,000 hours requires two repair workers, etc.).arrow_forward
- Doede Corporation uses activity-based costing to compute product margins. In the first stage, the activity-based costing system allocates two overhead accounts--equipment depreciation and supervisory expense--to three activity cost pools--Machining, Order Filling, and Other--based on resource consumption. Data to perform these allocations appear below: Overhead costs: Equipment depreciation $ 91,000 Supervisory expense $ 12,300 Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activity Cost Pools: Activity Cost Pools Machining Order Filling Other Equipment depreciation 0.60 0.30 0.10 Supervisory expense 0.60 0.20 0.20 In the second stage, Machining costs are assigned to products using machine-hours (MHs) and Order Filling costs are assigned to products using the number of orders. The costs in the Other activity cost pool are not assigned to products. Activity: MHs (Machining) Orders (Order Filling) Product W1 6,050 198 Product M0 21,800 999 Total…arrow_forwardVirgin River Inc. produces horse and rancher equipment. Costs from Support Department 1 are allocated based on the number of employees. Costs from Support Department 2 are allocated based on asset value. Relevant department information is provided in the following table. Using the sequential method of support department cost allocation, determine the total costs from Support Department 1 (assuming they are allocated first) that should be allocated to Support Department 2 and to each of the production departments. Support Department 1 Department 2 Support Production Production Department 1 Department 2 Number of employees 9. 7 25 18 Asset value $1,150 $670 $6,230 $5,100 Department cost $20,000 $15,500 $99,000 $79,000arrow_forwardAn activity based costing system is being considered at Evelia, nv to assign products overhead costs; these overhead costs are currently assigned strictly by number of units produced. First, the two overhead costs of Rent expense and Insurance expense would be allocated to three activity cost pools - Finishing, Sanding, and Other - based on resource consumption. The information used to perform these allocations is below: Overhead Costs: Rent expense: $2,000,000 Insurance expense: $1,650,000 Distribution of Resource Consumption across Activity Cost Pools: Overhead Cost Activity Cost Pools Finishing Sanding Other Rent expense 0.45 0.25 0.30 Insurance expense 0.20 0.35 0.45 In the second stage, Finishing costs would be assigned to products using direct labor hours and Sanding costs would be assigned to products using the number of machine hours. The costs in the Other activity pool would not be assigned to products. Activity data for the company's two products is as…arrow_forward
- (Appendix 4B) Sequential Method of Support Department Cost Allocation Stevenson Company is divided into two operating divisions: Battery and Small Motors. The company allocates power and general factory costs to each operating division using the sequential method. General Factory is allocated first in the sequential method for the company. Support department cost allocations using the sequential method are based on the following data: Support Departments Operating Divisions Overhead costs Machine hours Square footage Direct labor hours Required: Power Allocation ratios for General Factory Battery Power Small Motors $160,000 Allocation ratios for Power 2,000 1,000 General Factory $430,000 1. Calculate the allocation ratios for Power and General Factory. (Note: Carry these calculations out to four decimal places.) 2,000 1,500 Battery $163,000 7,000 7,500 18,000 Small Motors $84,600 1,500 20,000 60,000arrow_forwardRequired: 1. Using the five most expensive activities, calculate the overhead cost assigned to each prod-uct. Assume that the costs of the other activities are assigned in proportion to the cost of the five activities.2. Calculate the error relative to the fully specified ABC product cost and comment on the outcome.3. What if activities 1, 2, 5, and 8 each had a cost of $650,000 and the remaining activities hada cost of $50,000? Calculate the cost assigned to Wafer A by a fully specified ABC systemand then by an approximately relevant ABC approach. Comment on the implications forthe approximately relevant approach.arrow_forwardKiser Corporation pools--Machining, has an activity-based costing system with three activity cost Order Filling, and Other. In the first stage allocations, costs in the two overhead accounts, equipment depreciation and supervisory expense, are allocated to three activity cost pools based on resource consumption. Data used in the first stage allocations follow: Overhead costs: Equipment depreciation Supervisory expense Equipment depreciation Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activity Cost Pools: Supervisory expense Product MO Product H2 Total Activity Cost Pools O $60,000 O $800 O $10,400 O $9.600 0.30 Machining Order Filling 0.60 0.10 4,500 $ 96,000 0.10 Machining costs are assigned to products using machine-hours (MHs) and Order Filling costs are assigned to products using the number of orders. The costs in the Other activity cost pool are not assigned to products. Activity data for the company's two products follow: 5,500 $ 8,000 MHS (Machining) 10,000 400 Other 600 0.60…arrow_forward
- Meester Corporation has an activity-based costing system with three activity cost pools--Machining, Order Filling, and Other. In the first stage allocations, costs in the two overhead accounts, equipment depreciation and supervisory expense, are allocated to three activity cost pools based on resource consumption. Data used in the first stage allocations follow: Overhead costs: Equipment expense $ 81,300 Supervisory expense $ 2,200 Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activity Cost Pools: Activity Cost Pools Machining Order Filling Other Equipment expense 0.50 0.30 0.20 Supervisory expense 0.50 0.20 0.30 Machining costs are assigned to products using machine-hours (MHs) and Order Filling costs are assigned to products using the number of orders. The costs in the Other activity cost pool are not assigned to products. Activity data for the company's two products follow: Activity: MHs (Machining) Orders (Order Filling) Product M0 1,630…arrow_forwardSelect each of the items with the best description of its purpose. Description 1. Computes equivalent units only on production activity in the current period. 2. Combined costs of direct labor and overhead per equivalent unit. 3. Combines units and costs across two periods in computing equivalent units. 4. Used when materials move continuously through a manufacturing process. 5. Notifies the materials manager to send materials to a production department. 6. Holds indirect costs until assigned to production. 7. Holds production costs until products are transferred from production to finished goods (or another department) Itemsarrow_forwardRamsey SARL uses an activity based costing system to assign overhead costs to products. In the first stage, two overhead costs - Security expense and Building depreciation - are allocated to three activity cost pools - Shipping, Carving, and Other - based on resource consumption. Data to perform these allocations appear below: Overhead Costs: Security expense: $105,000 Building depreciation: $70,000 Distribution of Resource Consumption across Activity Cost Pools: Overhead Cost Activity Cost Pools Shipping Carving Other Security expense 0.30 0.42 0.28 Building depreciation 0.34 0.32 0.34 The second stage of allocation is done by assigning the Shipping costs to products on the basis of orders shipped while products are assigned Carving costs based on machine hours. Costs assigned to the Other activity pool are not further assigned to products. Activity information for Ramsey's only two products is below: orders shipped machine hours Product BA-15: 6,300 1,500…arrow_forward
- Cornerstones of Cost Management (Cornerstones Ser...AccountingISBN:9781305970663Author:Don R. Hansen, Maryanne M. MowenPublisher:Cengage LearningPrinciples of Cost AccountingAccountingISBN:9781305087408Author:Edward J. Vanderbeck, Maria R. MitchellPublisher:Cengage Learning