Question

Espinoza Company is a wholesale distributor that uses activity-based costing for all of its overhead costs. The company has provided the following data concerning its annual overhead costs and its activity based costing system:
Overhead costs:

Wages and salaries 220,000
Other expenses 150,000
Total $510,000

Distribution of resource consumption:


Filling Orders Activity Cost Pools Customer Support Other Total

Wages and salaries 35% 55% 10% 100%
Other expenses 35% 50% 15% 100%

The "Other" activity cost pool consists of the costs of idle capacity and organization-sustaining costs. The activity measures for the activity cost pools for the year are as follows:

Activity Cost Pool Activity

Filling orders 3,500 orders
Customer support 15 customers.

What would be the overall activity rate for the filling orders activity cost pool?

Answer 1

Answer:

Espinoza Company

Activity rate for the filling orders activity cost pool:

Overhead for filling orders divided by number of orders

= $130,500/3,500

= $37.29 per order

Explanation:

a) Data and Calculations:

Overhead costs:

Wages and salaries 220,000

Other expenses 150,000

Total $510,000

Distribution of resource consumption:

Filling Orders Activity Cost Pools

                                    Filling Orders  Customer Support  Other  Total

Wages and salaries             35%                      55%              10%     100%

Other expenses                  35%                       50%              15%     100%

Filling orders 3,500 orders

Customer support 15 customers

Overhead Allocation:

                              Filling Orders  Customer    Other        Total

                                                       Support

Wages and salaries $77,000        $121,000      $22,000     $220,000

Other expenses        53,500           75,000        22,500        150,000

Total                       $130,500       $196,000      $44,500     $370,000

Activity rate for filling orders = $130,500/3,500 = $37.29 per order

ABC or Activity Based Costing technique uses activity pools to accumulate and distribute overhead costs so that costs can be allocated based on the level of activity undertaken for each activity pool.