KaplaBossKita a company produces two spare parts namely Bossku and Bosskau. The company currently allocated
the overhead based on direct labour hours. It is recommended that the company
use activity-based costing to charge overhead to products.
The company expects to
produce 4,500 “Bossku” and 2,000 “Bosskau” in 2019. Each “Bossku” requires two
direct labour hours to produce and each “Bosskau” requires one-half hour to
produce. The direct material and direct labour costs included in the two
products are as follows:
Item
|
Bossku
|
Bosskau
|
Direct
material (per unit)
|
RM28
|
RM16
|
Direct
labour (per unit)
|
RM18
|
RM5
|
Budgeted total factory
overhead data for 2019.
Activity
|
Budgeted overhead RM
|
Estimated volume
|
Production
setups
|
RM90,000
|
20 setups
|
Material
handling
|
RM60,000
|
5,000kg
|
Packaging
and shipping
|
RM150,000
|
6,000 boxes
|
|
|
|
Total
factory overhead
|
RM300,000
|
Based on an analysis of
the three overhead activities, it was estimated that the two products would
require the activities as follows in 2019:
Activity
|
Bossku
|
Bosskau
|
Overall Totals
|
Production
setups
|
5
setups
|
15
setups
|
20
setups
|
Material
handling
|
1,000kg
|
4,000kg
|
5,000kg
|
Packaging
and shipping
|
4,000
boxes
|
2,000
boxes
|
6,000
boxes
|
Required:
Calculate
the cost of each product using total overhead based on direct labour hours.
Calculate
the activity cost rates for Setups, Material handling and Packaging and shipping.
Cost
out the two products using an activity-based costing system.
State
the advantages and disadvantage of Activity Based Costing for the above
situation.