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Chap08notes 2
Chapter 8
Chapter Eight
ABC is a
ABC is designed to good supplement
provide managers with to our traditional
cost information for cost system
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strategic and other
decisions that potentially
affect capacity and
therefore affect fixed as
well as variable costs.
Manufacturing Nonmanufacturing
costs costs
Traditional ABC
product costing product costing
Manufacturing Nonmanufacturing
costs costs
Some
Mo
st,
not but
All
all
Traditional ABC
product costing product costing
Activity–Based
Costing
Departmental
Overhead
Rates
Plantwide
Overhead
Rate
Volume
Allocation Bases
measures
Bases usually plus other
Number of
Problems:
In many processes, overhead is increasing
while direct labor is decreasing.
Variety and complexity of products is increasing.
ABC uses
volume as well as
other allocation bases not
All overhead related to the volume
costs are not related of production.
to volume measures like
direct labor
hours.
Strong top
management support
Link to evaluations
and rewards
Cross-functional
involvement
Cost Objects
(e.g., products Activities
and customers)
Consumption
of Resources
Cost
Unit-Level Batch-Level
Activity Activity
Manufacturing
companies typically combine
their activities into five
classifications.
Product-Level Customer-Level
Activity Organization- Activity
sustaining
Activity
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Identify and Define Activities
and Activity Cost Pools
Activities
should only be
combined within a level
if they are highly
correlated.
When combining
activities, they should be
grouped together only at
the appropriate
level.
An Activity Cost $$
Pool is a “bucket” in $
$ $
which costs are $
accumulated that
relate to a single
activity measure in
the ABC system.
Transaction Duration
driver driver
Cost Objects:
Products, Customer Orders, Customers
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Activity-Based Costing at Classic Brass
First-Stage Allocation
Cost Objects:
Products, Customer Orders, Customers
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Activity-Based Costing at Classic Brass
First-Stage Allocation
Second-Stage Allocations
Cost Objects:
Unallocated
Products, Customer Orders, Customers
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Assigning Costs to Cost Objects
The customer-level
cost is assigned to
customers directly;
it is not assigned to
products.
Standard Stanchions
Sales $ 13,600
Cost:
Direct materials $ 2,110
Direct labor 1,850
Shipping costs 180
Customer orders 630
Product design -
Order size 3,800 8,570
Product margin $ 5,030
Activity-based management is
used in conjunction with ABC to
identify areas that would benefit
from process improvements.
Sales $ 650
Green costs
Direct materials $ 13
Shipping costs 25 38
Green margin $ 612
Yellow costs
Direct labor 50
Indirect factory wages 1,145
Factory utilities 72
Administrative wages and salaries 168
Office equipment depreciation 15
Marketing wages and salaries 175
Selling expenses 5 1,630
Yellow margin $ (1,018)
Red costs
Factory equipment depreciation 96
Factory building lease -
Administrative building lease - 96
Red margin $ (1,114)