Delauder Enterprises Makes a Variety of Products That It Sells

question 61

Multiple Choice

Delauder Enterprises makes a variety of products that it sells to other businesses. The company's activity-based costing system has four activity cost pools for assigning costs to products and customers. Details concerning that activity-based costing system are listed below: The cost of serving customers, $1,608.00 per customer, is the cost of serving a customer for one year. Grennon Corporation buys only one of the company's products. The details of last year's purchases of this product are listed below:
According to the activity-based costing system, the total cost of the activity "Supporting assembly" for this customer this past year was closest to:

• A) $5,175.00
• B) $0.86
• C) $1,293.75
• D) $375.00

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Definitions:

Raw Materials

Unprocessed or primary substances used in manufacturing to create finished goods.

Retained Earnings

Retained earnings represent the accumulated net income of a company that has not been distributed to shareholders as dividends but is reinvested in the business.

FOH Volume Variance

A measurement in managerial accounting that compares the budgeted factory overhead for actual production volumes against the applied factory overhead based on standard costing.

FOH Budget Variance

The difference between the actual factory overhead costs incurred and the overhead costs allocated to production based on budgeted rates.