Question

EcoFabrics has budgeted overhead costs of $1,039,500. It has allocated overhead on a plantwide basis to its two products (wool and cotton) using direct labor hours which are estimated to be 495,000 for the current year. The company has decided to experiment with activity-based costing and has created two activity cost pools and related activity cost drivers. These two cost pools are cutting (cost driver is machine hours) and design (cost driver is number of setups). Overhead allocated to the cutting cost pool is $396,000 and $643,500 is allocated to the design cost pool. Additional information related to these pools is as follows.

Wool Cotton Total
Machine hours 110,000 110,000 220,000
Number of setups 1,100 550 1,650
1. Calculate the overhead rate using activity based costing.
2. Determine the amount of overhead allocated to the wool product line and the cotton product line using activity-based costing.
3. Calculate the overhead rate using traditional approach.
4. What amount of overhead would be allocated to the wool and cotton product lines using the traditional approach, assuming direct labor hours were incurred evenly between the wool and cotton?

Answer 1

1. Cutting $1.80 per machine hour

Design $390 per setup

2. Wool product line $627,000

Cotton Product line $412,500

3. Overhead rate $2.10

4. Wool Product line $519,750

Cotton Product line $519,750

Step-by-step explanation:

1. Calculation to determine the overhead rate using activity based costing.

Overhead rate using the activity based costing

Cutting = Overhead / Total Machine hours

= $396,000 / 220,000

= $1.80 per machine hour

Design = Overhead / Number of setups

= $643,500 / 1,650

= $390 per setup

2. Calculation to determine the amount of overhead allocated to the wool product line and the cotton product line using activity-based costing

Overhead allocated to the wool product line and the cotton product line

Wool product line = (110,000 * $1.80) + (1,100 * $390)

Wool product line= $198,000 + $429,000

Wool product line= $627,000

Cotton Product line = (110,000 * $1.80) + (550 * $390)

Cotton Product line= $198,000 + $214,500

Cotton Product line= $412,500

3.Calculation to determine the overhead rate using traditional approach.

Overhead rate using traditional approach

Overhead rate = Total Overhead / Direct labor hours

Overhead rate= $1,039,500 / 495,000

Overhead rate= $2.10

4. Calculation to determine What amount of overhead would be allocated to the wool and cotton product lines using the traditional approach

Overhead allocated using the traditional method

Wool Product line = $1,039,500 / 2

Wool Product line= $519,750

Cotton Product line = $1,039,500 / 2

Cotton Product line= $519,750