Kenrick Corporation uses activity-based costing to compute product margins. In the first stage, the activity-based costing system allocates two overhead accounts equipment expense and indirect labor to three activity cost pools Processing, Supervising and Other based on resource consumption. Data to perform these allocations appear below.
Overhead costs
Equipment expense $18,000
Indirect labor $2,000
Distribution of Resource Consumption Across activity cost pools
Activity Cost Pools
Processing Supervising Other
Equipment expense 0.10 0.30 0.60
Indirect labor 0.30 0.40 0.30
In the second stage. Processing costs are assigned to products using machine-hours (MHs) and Supervising costs are assigned to products using the number of batches. The costs in the Other activity cost pool are not assigned to products. Activity data for the company's two products as follows.
Activity
MHs (Processing) Batches (Supervising)
Product U4 5,500 600
Product C7 4,500 1,400
Total 10,000 2,000
Finally, sales and direct cost data are combined with Processing and Supervising costs to determine product margins.
Sales and Direct Cost Data:
Product U4 Product C7
Sales (total) $58,400 $31,800
Direct materials (total) $26,900 $13,900
Direct labor (total) $25,000 $11,200
What is the product margin for Product U4 under activity-based costing?
a. $3,500
b. $6,500
c. $5,180
d. $3,320
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Answer:
D.) $3320
Explanation:
Product margin = (Sales - direct labor - direct materials - overhead)
$(58400 - 26900 - 25000 - 3180) = $3,320
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Every organization needs some degree of flexibility and standardization. True False Being overly committed to following rules can harm an organization and keep it from growing. True False Every organization needs either a degree of ________ to adapt to new situations or some degree of ________ to make routine tasks and decisions as efficient and effective as possible. standardization; flexibility culture; vision flexibility; standardization structure; design
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Answer:
1. True: Every organization needs some degree of flexibility and standardization.
2. True: Being overly committed to following rules can harm an organization and keep it from growing.
3. flexibility; standardization.
Explanation:
It is really important and necessary that all organization have some degree of flexibility and standardization. Every organization is expected to be flexible, in order to be able to effectively manage potential changes or challenges that arises in business. They should also be standardized, by having proper policies, strategies and structure for the purpose of running the business smoothly and efficiently.
However, if an organization is overly committed to following rules, this can cause harm to it's business operations and thereby hindering its growth and development.
Hence, some degree of flexibility is needed in every organization in order to adapt to new situations or some degree of standardization to make routine tasks and decisions as efficient and effective as possible.