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Taylor Krienke

Tijuana Bronze

1)

Product costs: Material costs + Labor cost (run labor hours) + overhead

                        Valves                Pumps                Flow Controllers

Material                16                20                22

DL (16/run labor)        4                8                6.4

Overhead                17.55                35.1                28.08

Standard Unit Cost        $37.55                $63.1                $56.48

*total overhead given is $680,000 but does not include the set up labor which adds 168 hours X $16= $2,688 for a total overhead of $682,688

**to include the run labor we have to take the total hours of 9,725 X $16= $155,600

***total overhead $682,688/155,600= 4.39 meaning that our overhead is 4.39 times more than our direct labor hours so we have to take the DL and multiply it by the 4.39 to reach the total overhead that is allocated to each product line                

2)

                                Valves                Pumps                Flow Controllers

Actual Selling Price                57.56                81.26                97.07

Less material VC                (16)                (20)                (22)

Contribution Margin                $41.78                $61.26                $75.07

*Case states that the only short-run variable costs are direct material

**We have to use the Actual selling price because their gross margins were not as planned for both the pumps and flow controllers and therefore to calculate the current contribution margin we need the actual selling price less Variable Costs not the Target Selling Price.

3)

Revised product cost:

1) Allocate material related overhead (cost of receiving and handling) to each product line on the cost of material

Receiving $20,000 + Handling $220,000= $220,000/ $458,000 total material costs = ~$0.48

Valves                Pumps                Flow Controllers

Related overhead        .48                .48                .48

Material costs                X16                X20                X22

Material overhead        $7.68                $9.60                $10.56

2) Take set-up labor out of the total overhead and assign directly to each product line

8 hours for valve runs X $16 labor cost= 128/ 7,500 units= .0171 or .02

40 hours for pump runs X $16 labor cost= 640 / 12,500 units= .0512 or .05

120 hours for Flow Controller runs X $16 labor cost= 1,920/ 4,000= .48

3) Substitute machine hours for labor dollars

Run labor is direct labor here so we take total labor costs of $16 and multiply it by the run labor hours/unit

                Valves                Pumps                Flow Controllers

Labor costs        16                16                16

Run Labor        .25                .5                .4

Direct labor        $4                $8                $6.40

To calculate the overhead hourly machine rate we have the remaining overhead costs

Engineering                        100,000

Packing and Shipping                60,000

Maintenance                        30,000

Depreciation                        270,000

Total overhead to allocate        460,000/ 10,800 machine hours = $42.59/ hour

                Valves                Pumps                Flow Controllers

Hourly                 42.59                42.59                42.59

Hrs/unit        .5                .5                .2

Machine cost        $21.30                $21.30                $8.52

Combining all three parts:

                        Valves                Pumps                Flow Controllers

Material                16                20                22

Related overhead        7.68                9.60                10.56

Set up                        .02                .05                .48

DL                        4                8                6.40

Machine cost                21.30                21.30                8.52

Standard Cost                $49                $58.9                $47.96

As estimated by Mary Ford our costs for Pumps and Flow Controllers are in fact lower using this standard cost than the current standard cost, although valves are actually more expensive than the company realizes.

4)

ABC costing here means that whenever possible, overhead costs that cannot be traced directly to product lines should be allocated on the basis of transactions. Therefore we take the total costs of say Receiving for $20,000 and multiply it by the percentage of transactions that are required for Valves which is 3% = 20,000 X .03 = $600 for all units of valves or 600/7,500= $0.08 per unit.

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