Question

Durban Metal Products, Ltd., of the Republic of South Africa makes specialty metal parts used in applications ranging from the cutting edges of bulldozer blades to replacement parts for Land Rovers. The company uses an activity-based costing system for internal decision-making purposes. The company has four activity cost pools as listed below:________.

Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Activity Rate
Order size Number of direct labor-hours $ 16.85 per direct labor-hour
Customer orders Number of customer orders $ 320.00 per customer order
Product testing Number of testing hours $ 89.00 per testing hour
Selling Number of sales calls $ 1,090.00 per sales call
The managing director of the company would like information concerning the cost of a recently completed order for heavy-duty trailer axles. The order required 200 direct labor-hours, 4 hours of product testing, and 2 sales calls.Required:Prepare a report summarizing the overhead costs assigned to the order for heavy-duty trailer axles. What is the total overhead cost assigned to the order?

Answer 1

Overhead Report for heavy-duty trailer axles.

Order size ($ 16.85 × 200) $3,370.00

Customer orders ($ 320.00 × 1) $320.00

Product testing ($ 89.00 × 4) $356.00

Selling ( $ 1,090.00 × 2) $2,180.00

Total $6,226.00

Conclusion :

The total overhead cost assigned to the order is $6,226.00

Step-by-step explanation:

ABC system allocates overheads to jobs using cost drivers.

First an Activity Center where costs accumulate is identified these can be several in our scenario we have four Activity Centers.

Then the Cost driver rate is calculated for each Activity Center. Our question has provided these.

The final step is to allocate the overheads to a particular job using the cost driver rate.