Advanced Products Corporation has supplied the following data from its activity-based costing system: Overhead Costs Wages and salaries $ 300,000 Other overhead costs 100,000 Total overhead costs $ 400,000 Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Total Activity for the Year Supporting direct labor Number of direct labor-hours 20,000 DLHs Order processing Number of customer orders 400 orders Customer support Number of customers 200 customers Other This is an organization- sustaining activity Not applicable Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activities Supporting Direct Labor Order Processing Customer Support Other Total Wages and salaries 40 % 30 % 20 % 10 % 100 % Other overhead costs 30 % 10 % 20 % 40 % 100 % During the year, Advanced Products completed one order for a new customer, Shenzhen Enterprises. This customer did not order any other products during the year. Data concerning that order follow: Data Concerning the Shenzhen Enterprises Order Units ordered 10 units Direct labor-hours 2 DLHs per unit Selling price $ 300 per unit Direct materials $ 180 per unit Direct labor $ 50 per unit Required: 1. Prepare a report showing the first-stage allocations of overhead costs to the activity cost pools. 2. Compute the activity rates for the activity cost pools. 3. Calculate the total overhead costs for the order from Shenzhen Enterprises including customer support costs. 4. Calculate the customer margin for Shenzhen Enterprises.

You plan to invest some money in a bank account. which of the following banks provides you with the highest effective rate of interest? hint: perhaps this problem requires some calculations. bank 1; 6.1% with annual compounding. bank 2; 6.0% with monthly compounding. bank 3; 6.0% with annual compounding. bank 4; 6.0% with quarterly compounding. bank 5; 6.0% with daily (365-day) compounding.

Zachary company produces commercial gardening equipment. since production is highly automated, the company allocates its overhead costs to product lines using activity-based costing. the costs and cost drivers associated with the four overhead activity cost pools follow: activities unit level batch level product level facility level cost $ 64,800 $ 27,730 $ 15,000 $ 154,000 cost driver 2,400 labor hrs. 47 setups percentage of use 11,000 units production of 780 sets of cutting shears, one of the company’s 20 products, took 240 labor hours and 7 setups and consumed 15 percent of the product-sustaining activities. required: (a) had the company used labor hours as a company wide allocation base, how much overhead would it have allocated to the cutting shears? (b) how much overhead is allocated to the cutting shears using activity-based costing? (c) compute the overhead cost per unit for cutting shears first using activity-based costing and then using direct labor hours for allocation if 780 units are produced. if direct product costs are $150 and the product is priced at 30 percent above cost for what price would the product sell under each allocation system? (d) assuming that activity-based costing provides a more accurate estimate of cost, indicate whether the cutting shears would be over- or underpriced if direct labor hours are used as an allocation base. explain how over-or undercosting can affect vaulker's profitability. (e) comment on the validity of using the allocated facility-level cost in the pricing decision. should other costs be considered in a cost- plus pricing decision? if so, which ones? what costs would you include if you were trying to decide whether to accept a special order?

Two products, qi and vh, emerge from a joint process. product qi has been allocated $34,300 of the total joint costs of $55,000. a total of 2,900 units of product qi are produced from the joint process. product qi can be sold at the split-off point for $11 per unit, or it can be processed further for an additional total cost of $10,900 and then sold for $13 per unit. if product qi is processed further and sold, what would be the financial advantage (disadvantage) for the company compared with sale in its unprocessed form directly after the split-off point?