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Activity-Based Costing and Activity-Based Management
Activity-Based Costing and Activity-Based Management
Activity-Based Management
Chapter 5
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Learning Objective 1
Explain undercosting
and overcosting of
products and services.
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Undercosting and
Overcosting Example
Jose, Roberta, and Nancy order
separate items for lunch.
Joses order amounts to
$14
Roberta consumed
30
Nancys order is
16
Total
$60
What is the average cost per lunch?
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Undercosting and
Overcosting Example
$60 3 = $20
Roberta is
undercosted.
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Learning Objective 2
Present three guidelines for
refining a costing system.
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INDIRECT
COST-ALLOCATION
BASE
All
AllIndirect
IndirectCosts
Costs
$2,900,000
$2,900,000
50,000
50,000Direct
Direct
Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Labor-Hours
Labor-Hours
$58 per Direct
Manufacturing
Labor-Hour
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Indirect
IndirectCosts
Costs
Direct
DirectCosts
Costs
DIRECT
COSTS
Direct
Direct
Materials
Materials
Direct
Direct
Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Labor
Labor
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Learning Objective 3
Distinguish between the
traditional and the
activity-based costing
approaches to designing
a costing system.
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Assignment to Other
Cost Objects
Cost of:
Product
Service
Customer
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Design
Setup
Shipping
Cost
Allocation
Base
PartsSquare
feet
No. of
Setup
Hours
No. of
Shipments
Product
Cost
Objects
Lenses
NL
Lenses
CL
Lenses
Other
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Learning Objective 4
Describe a four-part
cost hierarchy.
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Cost Hierarchies
A cost hierarchy is a categorization
of costs into different cost pools.
Cost drivers bases (cost-allocation bases)
Degrees of difficulty in determining
cause-and-effect relationships
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Cost Hierarchies
ABC systems commonly use a
four-part cost hierarchy to
identify cost-allocation bases:
1. Output unit-level costs
2.
Batch-level costs
3.
Product-sustaining costs
4.
Facility-sustaining costs
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Batch-Level Costs
These are resources sacrificed on
activities that are related to a group
of units of product(s) or service(s)
rather than to each individual unit
of product or service.
Setup-hours
Procurement costs
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Product-Sustaining Costs
These are often called service-sustaining
costs and are resources sacrificed on
activities undertaken to support
individual products or services.
Design costs
Engineering costs
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Facility-Sustaining Costs
These are resources sacrificed on
activities that cannot be traced to
individual products or services but
support the organization as a whole.
General administration
rent
building security
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Learning Objective 5
Cost products or services using
activity-based costing.
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Implementing
Activity-Based Costing
Step 1
Step 2
NL
CL
Direct material
Direct labor
Mold cleaning and
maintenance
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Implementing
Activity-Based Costing
Cleaning and maintenance costs of
$360,000 are direct batch-level costs.
Why?
Because these costs consist of workers
wages for cleaning molds after each
batch of lenses is run.
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Implementing
Activity-Based Costing
Normal Lenses (NL)
Cost Hierarchy
Description Category
Direct materials Unit-level $1,520,000
Direct mfg. labor Unit-level
800,000
Cleaning and maint. Batch-level
160,000
Total direct costs $2,480,000
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Implementing
Activity-Based Costing
Complex Lenses (CL)
Cost Hierarchy
Description Category
Direct materials Unit-level $ 920,000
Direct mfg. labor Unit-level
260,000
Cleaning and maint. Batch-level
200,000
Total direct costs $1,380,000
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Implementing
Activity-Based Costing
Step 3
Select the cost-allocation bases to use for
allocating indirect costs to the products.
(1)
(2)
(3)
Activity
Cost Hierarchy
Total Costs
Design
Product-sustaining
$450,000
Setups
Batch-level
$409,200
Operations Unit-level
$637,500
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Implementing
Activity-Based Costing
Step 4
Identify the indirect costs associated
with each cost-allocation base.
Overhead costs incurred are assigned
to activities, to the extent possible, on
the basis of a cause-and-effect relationship.
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Implementing
Activity-Based Costing
Step 5
Compute the rate per unit.
(1)
(5)
NL
CL
Total
Setup-hours: 640
2,000
2,640
$409,200 2,640 = $155
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Implementing
Activity-Based Costing
Step 6
Compute the indirect costs allocated
to the products.
NL: $155 640 =
$ 99,200
CL: $155 2,000 =
310,000
Total
$409,200
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Implementing
Activity-Based Costing
Step 7
Compute the costs of the products.
NL and CL would show three
direct cost categories.
1.
Direct materials
2.
3.
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Implementing
Activity-Based Costing
NL and CL would show six indirect cost pools.
1.
Design
2.
3.
Manufacturing operations
4.
Shipment setup
5.
Distribution
6.
Administration
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Learning Objective 6
Use activity-based
costing systems for
activity-based management.
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Activity-Based Management
ABM describes management decisions that use
activity-based costing information to satisfy
customers and improve profits.
Product pricing and mix decisions
Cost reduction and process improvement decisions
Design decisions
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Design Decisions
Management can identify and evaluate new designs
to improve performance by evaluating how product
and process designs affect activities and costs.
Companies can work with their customers to
evaluate the costs and prices of alternative designs.
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Learning Objective 7
Compare activity-based costing
systems and departmentcosting systems.
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Learning Objective 8
Evaluate the costs and benefits
of implementing activity-based
costing systems.
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End of Chapter 5
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