Figure 4-21 Jones Manufacturing Uses an Activity-Based Costing System

question 60

Multiple Choice

Figure 4-21 Jones Manufacturing uses an activity-based costing system.The company produces Model X and Model Y.Information relating to the two products is as follows:
The following overhead costs are reported for the following activities of the production process:
Jones manufacturing has used activity based costing to assign costs to Models X and Y as given in the table below:
Jones Manufacturing wants to implement an approximately relevant ABC system by using the two most expensive activities for cost assignment.
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Refer to Figure 4-21.Under this new approach using consumption ratios for labor related and machine hours, what allocation rate would be used to assign labor related costs? (round to 5 decimal places)

• A) 0.85455
• B) 0.60
• C) 0.46875
• D) 0.53125

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Definitions:

Weighted Average Method

A method for calculating the cost of goods sold and the ending inventory value, which utilizes the average cost of all available sale items.

Joint Costs

Costs incurred when producing multiple products simultaneously, which cannot be easily attributed to a single product.

Weight Factor

A factor assigned to each product in a joint manufacturing process representing its importance in comparison to the other products.

Support Department

A division within a company that provides essential services or backup to the production or operations departments, not directly producing goods or services.