Performance Products Corporation makes two products, titanium Rims and Posts. Data regarding the two products follow:
Direct Labor-Hours per unit Annual Production
Rims 0.80 29,000 units
Posts 0.80 73,000 units
Additional information about the company follows:
Rims require $20 in direct materials per unit, and Posts require $18.
The direct labor wage rate is $16 per hour.
Rims are more complex to manufacture than Posts and they require special equipment.
The ABC system has the following activity cost pools:
Estimated Activity
Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Estimated
Overhead
Cost Rims Posts Total
Machine setups Number of setups $ 34,310 100 100 200
Special processing Machine-hours $ 113,150 1,000 0 1,000
General factory Direct labor-hours $ 1,218,000 4,000 83,000 87,000
Exercise 4-8 Part 2
2. Determine the unit product cost of each product according to the ABC system.
Unit product cost of Rims
Unit product cost of Posts