Plant-wide, department, and activity-cost rates. Acclaim Inc. makes two styles of trophies, basic and deluxe, and operates at capacity. Acclaim does large custom orders. Acclaim budgets to produce 10,000 basic trophies and 5,000 deluxe trophies. Manufacturing takes place in two production departments: forming and assembly. In the forming department, indirect manufacturing costs are accumulated in two cost pools, setup and general overhead. In the assembly department, all indirect manufacturing costs are accumulated in one general overhead cost pool. The basic trophies are formed in batches of 200 but be-cause of the more intricate detail of the deluxe trophies, they are formed in batches of 50.

The controller has asked you to compare plant-wide, department, and activity-based cost allocation.

Forming Department Basic Delux Total
$60,000 $35,000 $95,000
Direct manufacturing labor $30,000 $20,000 $50,000
Overhead costs Setup $48,000
General overhead $32,000

Assembly Department Basic Delux Total
Direct materials $50,000 $10,000 $15,000
Direct manufacturing labor 15,000 25,000 40,000
Overhead costs Setup
General overhead 40,000


Required:
a. Calculate the budgeted unit cost of basic and deluxe trophies based on a single plant-wide overhead rate, if total overhead is allocated based on total direct (Don't forget to include direct material and direct manufacturing labor cost in your unit cost calculation.)
b. Calculate the budgeted unit cost of basic and deluxe trophies based on departmental overhead rates, where forming department overhead costs are allocated based on direct manufacturing labor costs of the forming department and assembly department overhead costs are allocated based on total direct manufacturing labor costs of the assembly department
c. Calculate the budgeted unit cost of basic and deluxe trophies if Acclaim allocates overhead costs in each department using activity-based costing, where setup costs are allocated based on number of batches and general overhead costs for each department are allocated based on direct manufacturing labor costs of each department.
d. Explain briefly why plant-wide, department, and activity-based costing systems show different costs for the basic and deluxe trophies. Which system would you recommend and why?

Answer:

Acclaim Inc.

                                         Basic Trophies     Deluxe Trophies

Budgeted unit cost:

a. using single-plant o/h rate   $17.60                  $28.80

b. using departmental rates    $17.42                  $29.16

c. using ABC                            $18.26                  $27.48

d. They show different costs because the overhead rates are based on different parameters.

I recommend ABC system.  It is more fair because the overhead rates are based on product line's activity usage instead of an arbitrary figure.

Explanation:

a) Data and Calculations:

                                         Basic Trophies     Deluxe Trophies        Total

Budgeted production               10,000                   5,000              15,000

Batches                                         200                        50                   250

                                         Basic Trophies     Deluxe Trophies        Total

Forming Department            $60,000              $35,000           $95,000

Direct manufacturing labor $30,000              $20,000           $50,000

Assembly

Direct materials                    $5,000                $10,000            $15,000

Direct manufacturing labor  15,000                  25,000             40,000

Total direct costs              $110,000                $90,000        $200,000

Overhead costs                  66,000                   54,000           120,000

Total production costs    $176,000               $144,000        $320,000

Budgeted production          10,000                    5,000

Budget unit costs               $17.60                  $28.80

Overhead rate

Total overhead/total direct costs = $120,000/$200,000 = $0.60

                                                             Basic        Deluxe        Total

                                                         Trophies    Trophies

Forming department:

Overhead costs Setup $48,000

General overhead        $32,000

Total overhead costs   $80,000

Overhead rate = $80,000/$145,000 = $552

 Assembly department

General overhead         $40,000/$55,000 = $0.727

                                         Basic Trophies     Deluxe Trophies        Total

Forming Department            $60,000              $35,000           $95,000

Direct manufacturing labor $30,000              $20,000           $50,000

Total direct costs                 $90,000              $55,000          $145,000

Overhead costs                     49,680                 30,360              80,040

Total departmental costs  $139,680               $85,360         $225,040

Assembly

Direct materials                    $5,000                $10,000            $15,000

Direct manufacturing labor  15,000                  25,000             40,000

Total direct costs               $20,000                $35,000          $55,000

Overhead costs                    14,540                   25,445            39,985

Total departmental costs  $34,540                $60,445          $94,985

Total production costs     $174,220               $145,805       $320,025

Budgeted production          10,000                    5,000

Budget unit costs               $17.42                  $29.16

                                         Basic Trophies     Deluxe Trophies        Total

Forming Department            $60,000              $35,000           $95,000

Direct manufacturing labor $30,000              $20,000           $50,000

Assembly

Direct materials                    $5,000                $10,000            $15,000

Direct manufacturing labor  15,000                  25,000             40,000

Total overhead allocated  $72,600                 $47,400        $120,000

Total production costs    $182,600                $137,400       $320,000

Budgeted production          10,000                    5,000

Budget unit costs                $18.26                  $27.48

Overhead costs allocation:

                                                            Basic        Deluxe        Total

                                                         Trophies    Trophies

Forming department:

Overhead costs Setup $48,000/250  $38,400  $9,600     $48,000

General overhead  $32,000/$50,000   19,200   12,800       32,000

Assembly department

General overhead $40,000/$40,000   15,000   25,000      40,000

Total overhead allocated                    $72,600 $47,400   $120,000

Which of the statements is not true about a bank run? Fears leading to bank runs can be self-fulfilling. There was a wave of bank runs during the Great Depression. Bank runs are bad for the bank affected and usually good for the bank's competitors. Deposit insurance is designed to reduce the risk of bank runs for depository banks. Since the Great Depression the government has set up regulation that has eliminated most bank runs.

Which of the following typically occurs during an expansionary phase of a business cycle?
A. Nominal interest rates decrease.
B. Income taxes decrease.
C. The price level decreases.
D. Government transfer payments increase.
E. Employment increases.

A nation's GDP at purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates refers to:_____.
a. the value of the GDP divided by the population of the country.
b. the value of all the goods and services produced by a country in a single year.
c. the value of the GDP adjusted for purchasing power.
d. a country's average achievements in health, knowledge, and standard of living.
e. the sum value of all goods and services produced in the country valued at prices prevailing in the United States.

Information related to Riverbed Co. is presented below.

a. On April 5, purchased merchandise on account from Tamarisk Company for $36,000, terms 3/10, net/30, FOB shipping point.
b. On April 6, paid freight costs of $920 on merchandise purchased from Tamarisk.
c. On April 7, purchased equipment on account for $30,500.
d. On April 8, returned damaged merchandise to Tamarisk Company and was granted a $4,200 credit for returned merchandise.
e. On April 15, paid the amount due to Wilkes Company in full.

Required:
Prepare the journal entries to record these transactions on the books of Kerber Co. under a perpetual inventory system.

Richards Corporation uses the weighted-average method of process costing. The following information is available for October in its Fabricating Department:

Units:
Beginning Inventory: 94,000 units, 80% complete as to materials and 25% complete as to conversion.
Units started and completed: 278,000.
Units completed and transferred out: 372,000.
Ending Inventory: 37,000 units, 40% complete as to materials and 15% complete as to conversion.

Costs:
Costs in beginning Work in Process - Direct Materials: $47,200.
Costs in beginning Work in Process - Conversion: $89,700.
Costs incurred in October - Direct Materials: $759,920.
Costs incurred in October - Conversion: $929,300.

Required:
Calculate the cost per equivalent unit of materials.

Maxim Corp. has provided the following information about one of its products: Date Transaction Number of Units Cost per Unit 1/1 Beginning Inventory 200 $ 140 6/5 Purchase 400 $ 160 11/10 Purchase 100 $ 200 During the year, Maxim sold 400 units. What is cost of goods sold using the average cost method

A Giffen good is a good for which price and quantity demanded are positively related. A Giffen good arises when:_______.
a. the income effect and the substitution effect move quantity demanded in opposite directions, with the income effect outweighing the substitution effect.
b. the income effect and the substitution effect move quantity demanded in opposite directions, with the substitution effect outweighing the income effect.
c. the income effect and the substitution effect move quantity demanded in the same direction, with the income effect outweighing the substitution effect.
d. the income effect and the substitution effect move quantity demanded in the same direction, with the substitution effect outweighing the income effect.

Hubert lives in San Francisco and runs a business that sells boats. In an average year, he receives $842,000 from selling boats. Of this sales revenue, he must pay the manufacturer a wholesale cost of $452,000; he also pays wages and utility bills totaling $301,000. He owns his showroom; if he chooses to rent it out, he will receive $38,000 in rent per year. Assume that the value of this showroom does not depreciate over the year. Also, if Hubert does not operate this boat business, he can work as an accountant, receive an annual salary of $48,000 with no additional monetary costs, and rent out his showroom at the $38,000 per year rate. No other costs are incurred in running this boat business.
Identify each of Hubert's costs in the following table as either an implicit cost or an explicit cost of selling pianos.
Implicit Cost Explicit Cost
The wholesale cost for the pianos that Hubert pays the manufacturer
The salary Hubert could earn if he worked as an accountant
The wages and utility bills that Hubert pays
The rental income Hubert could receive if he chose to rent out his showroom
Complete the following table by determining Hubert's accounting and economic profit of his piano business.
Profit
(Dollars)
Accounting Profit
Economic Profit
If Hubert's goal is to maximize his economic profit, he( should, should not) stay in the piano business because the economic profit he would earn as an accountant would be $______.

You just won a lottery that promises to pay you $1 million exactly 10 years from today. Because the $1 million payment is guaranteed by the state in which you live, opportunities exist to sell the claim today for an immediate lump-sum cash payment. What is the least you will sell your claim for if you could earn 8.73 % on similar-risk investments during the 10-year period

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a. 4.21
b. 15.00
c. 4.00
d. 3.75

On December 31, 2014, Oakbrook Inc. rendered services to Beghun Corporation at an agreed price of $102,049, accepting $40,000 down and agreeing to accept the balance in four equal installments of $20,000 receivable each December 31. An assumed interest rate of 11% is imputed.
Instructions:
Prepare the entries that would be recorded by Oakbrook Inc. for the sale and for the receipts and interest on the following dates. (Assume that the effective-interest method is used for amortization purposes.)
(a) December 31, 2014.
(b) December 31, 2016.
(c) December 31, 2018.
(d) December 31, 2015.
(e) December 31, 2017.

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A) Bundling the two software products is not likely to be profitable because the marginal cost of producing sofware is positive by very small.
B) Bundling the two software products is not likely to be profitable because the consumer demands are homogeneous.
C) Bundling the two software products is likely to be profitable because the demands are negatively correlated
D) Bundling the two software products is not likely to be profitable because the demands are positively correlated.

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d (i). Suppose that ZX Inc. is currently selling at $50 per share. You buy 200 shares, using $5,000 of your own money and borrowing the remainder of the purchase price from your broker. The rate on the margin loan is 5%. What is the rate of return on your margined position (assuming again that you invest $5,000 of your own money) if ZX Inc. is selling after one year at $46 (use whole number percentage with two decimals rounded up/down - i.e. 0.3245 input 32.45) ? Group of answer choices -21% -20% -19% -18%

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Which scenarios provided would cause a change in demand for grape jelly?
A)
The price of grape jelly increases considerably.
B)
Grape jelly is placed on sale at a local supermarket.
The prices of peanut butter and bread increase substantially.
D)
Summer is approaching and more people prefer sandwiches for lunch.
E)
The federal government releases a report on the positive health benefits of
grape jelly

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A. Accounts Receivable-A. Hopkins 2,000
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts 2,000
Cash
Accounts Receivable-A. Hopkins 2,000
B. Cash 2.000
Bad debts expense 2,000
C. Accounts Receivable-A. Hopkins
Bad debts expense 2,000
Cash 2,000
Accounts Receivable-A. Hopkins
D. Accounts Receivable-A. Hopkins 2,000
Bad debts expense 2,000
Cash 2,000
Accounts Receivable-A. Hopkins 2,000
E. Allowance for Doubtful Accounts 2,000
Accounts Receivable-A. Hopkinse 2,000
Accounts Receivable-A. Hopkins 2,000
Cash 2,000
F. Cash 2,000
Accounts Receivable-A. Hopkins 2,000

ecause of coronavirus, demand for Vitamin C tablets increased significantly at CVS. CVS started to observe a weekly demand of 85 boxes of Vitamin C tablets with a standard deviation of 50 boxes. The cost of placing an order is $200, and the time from ordering to receipt is 4 weeks. The procurement cost (wholesale price) of the product is $15. The annual inventory carrying cost is 10% of the procurement cost of the product. What is the reorder point if it wants to achieve a stock out probability of 5%

Brown Cow Dairy uses the aging approach to estimate bad debt expense. The ending balance of each account receivable is aged on the basis of three time periods as follows:
(1) not yet due, $13,000;
(2) up to 120 days past due, $6,000; and
(3) more than 120 days past due, $5,500. Experience has shown that for each age group, the average loss rate on the amount of the receivables at year-end due to uncollectibility is
(1) 2 percent,
(2) 12 percent, and
(3) 30 percent, respectively.
At December 31 (end of the current year), the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts balance is $710 (credit) before the end-of-period adjusting entry is made. Data during the current year follow:
a. During December, an Account Receivable (Patty's Bake Shop) of $660 from a prior sale was determined to be uncollectible; therefore, it was written off immediately as a bad debt.
b. On December 31, the appropriate adjusting entry for the year was recorded.
Required:
1. Give the required journal entries for the two items listed above.
2. Show how the amounts related to Accounts Receivable and Bad Debt Expense would be reported on the income statement and balance sheet for the current year. Disregard income tax considerations.

A baker knows that her customers will pay $5 for a loaf of bread, but if the marginal

utility decreases after the first loaf, how might the baker get her customers to buy more

than one loaf?

An investor believes that the U.S. dollar will rise in value relative to the Japanese yen. The same investor is considering two investments with identical risk and return characteristics. One stock is trading in yen in Japan and the other stock is a stock trading in dollars in the United States. Should the investor purchase the Japanese​ stock?

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A semiprofessional baseball team near your town plays two home games each month at the local baseball park. The team splits the concessions 50/50 with the city but keeps all the revenue from ticket sales. The city charges the team $500 each month for the three-month season. The team pays the players and manager a total of $2500 each month. The team charges $10 for each ticket, and the average customer spends $6 at the concession stand. Attendance averages 100 people at each home game.

The team earns an average of $_________ in revenue for each game and $_____________ of revenue each season. With total costs of $___________ each season, the team finishes the season with $____________ of profit.

Refer to the data below to answer the following questions:

Expenditure Income
C. Consumer goods and services $11,502 Wages and salaries $8,868
Corporate profits 1,686
I: Investment in plants, equipment, and inventory 2,670 Proprietor's income 1,348
G. Government goods and services 3,125 Rents 59
Interest 619
X: Exports 2,260 Taxes on output and import 1,147
Depreciation 2,647
M: Imports (2,757) Statistical discrepancy (106)
GDP: Total value of output $16,800 = Total value of income $16,800

Required:
What share of U.S. total income in 2013 consisted of

a. Wages and salaries
b. Corporate profits

Amanda, one of Abigail's fellow workers at BOSS, was surprised to learn that her department's schedule was changed from a standard 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. day, with an hour for lunch, to a work day that began at 8 a.m. and ended at 6 p.m., and that included a two-hour lunch. BOSS was located in the far suburbs, and there was little Amanda could do during the two-hour lunch period. What especially upset Amanda was the realization that when she got off work at 6 p.m. and drove 30 minutes to pick up her child at day care, she would be at least an hour late for daycare and would have to pay a very costly penalty. There were no day care facilities closer to the job, so Amanda had little recourse. She raised this concern to her supervisor, and when she was told that the new schedules were going to remain 8-6 with a two-hour lunch, Amanda began a campaign to pressure BOSS to change that schedule back. She wrote letters to the local newspaper, and called a local TV station. When Amanda's employer learned of Amanda's actions, it discharged her under Employment at Will (EAW). Amanda filed suit for wrongful discharge, claiming that this was a public policy exception to EAW because it constrained her Constitutional First Amendment right to Freedom of Speech. Which of the following is most correct?

a. Amanda will not win her lawsuit for wrongful discharge.
b. Amanda will not win her lawsuit for wrongful discharge unless the court decides that Amanda had legal standing to bring the case.
c. Amanda will win her lawsuit for wrongful discharge unless the court decides that BOSS had legitimate business necessity for changing the schedule.
d. Amanda will win her lawsuit for wrongful discharge.

Company X paid Company Y $1.85 million for a new plant. During the same accounting period, Company X experienced the following changes in its balance sheet: Cash decreased by $353,000, Accounts Receivable increased by $321,800, Inventory increased by $276,300, Property, Plant, and Equipment increased by $753,400, and Bonds Payable increased by $2 million. The net cash flow provided by financing activities is:

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Headland Company loans Sarasota Company $2,190,000 at 6% for 3 years on January 1, 2020. Headland intends to hold this loan to maturity and has the financial ability to do so. The fair value of the loan at the end of each reporting period is as follows. December 31, 2020 $2,238,000 December 31, 2021 2,210,000 December 31, 2022 2,190,000 Prepare the journal entry(ies) at December 31, 2020, and December 31, 2022, for Headland related to these bonds, assuming (a) it does not use the fair value option, and (b) it uses the fair value option. Interest is paid on January 1.