Jones Manufacturing Has Used Activity Based Costing to Assign Costs
Question 128
Question 128
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Jones manufacturing has used activity based costing to assign costs to Models X and Y as given in the table below: Units produced Machine hours Direct labour hours Material handling (number of moves) Setups Purchase orders nspections Product line variatinns. ModelX 24,0007,5008,0004,0005,0003010,0008 ModelY 30,0008,50012,0006,0007,0004014,00012 The following overhead costs are reported for the following activities of the production process: Material handling Labour-related overhead Setups Product design Batch inspections Central purchasing $40,000120,00060,000100,000120,00070,000 Jones manufacturing has used activity based costing to assign costs to Models X and Y as given in the table below: Activity Material handling Labour- related overhead Setups Product design Batch inspections Central purchasing Total Cost Pool $40,000$120,000$60,000$100,000$120,000$70,000 Driver 10,00020,00012,0002024,00070 Pool Rate $4$6$5$5,000$5$1,000 Model X Activity 4,0008,0005,000810,00030 Model X Cost $16,000$48,000$25,000$40,000$50,000$30,000$209,000 Model Y Activity 6,00012,0007,0001214,00040 Model Y Cost $24,000$72,000$35,000$60,000$70,000$40,000$301,000 Total $40,000$120,000$60,000$100,000$120,000$70,000$510,000 Jones Manufacturing wants to implement an approximately relevant ABC system by using the two most expensive activities for cost assignment. -Refer to the figure.Under this new approach using consumption ratios for labour-related and machine hours,what would the overhead assigned to labour-related activities be (rounded to two decimal places) ?
A) $102,546.50 B) $120,000.00 C) $255,000.00 D) $435,820.50
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