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Surgery Center is an outpatient surgical clinic that was profitable for many years, but Medicare has cut its reimbursements by as much as 40%. As a result, the clinic wants to better understand its costs. It decides to prepare an activity-based cost analysis, including an estimate of the average cost of both general surgery and orthopedic surgery. The clinic’s three activity cost pools and their cost drivers follow.

Activity Cost Pool Cost Cost Driver Driver Quantity

Professional salaries $1,600,000 Professional hours 10,000

Patient services and supplies 27,000 Number of patients 600

Building cost 150,000 Square feet 1,500

The two main surgical units and their related data follow.

Service Hours Square Feet* Patients

General surgery 2,500 600 400

Orthopedic surgery 7,500 900 200

Required

1. Compute the cost per cost driver for each of the three activity cost pools.

2. Use the results from part 1 to allocate costs to both the general surgery and the orthopedic surgery units. Compute total cost and average cost per patient for both the general surgery and the orthopaedic surgery units.

Short Answer

Expert verified

Answer

Average Cost per Patient

For General Surgery:$1,195

For Orthopedic Surgery: $6,495

Step by step solution

01

Cost per cost driver

ProfessionalSalaryCostperdriver=TotalSalaryCostDriverQuantity=$1,600,00010,000=$160

role="math" PatientServicesandSuppliesCostperdriver=TotalCostTotalCostDriverQuantity=$27,000600=$45

uildingCostdriver=TotalCostTotalCostDriverQuantity=$150,0001,500=$100

02

Average cost per unit

TotalCostforGeneralSurgery=ProfessionalSalaryCost+PatientServiceandSuppliesCost+BuildingCost=$160×2,500+$45×400+$100×600=$478,000

role="math" AverageCostperpatientforGeneralSurgery=TotalCostTotalNumberofPatients=$478,000400=$1,195

TotalCostforOrthopedicSurgery=ProfessionalSalaryCost+PatientServiceandSuppliesCost+BuildingCost=$160×7,500+$45×200+$100×900=$1,299,000

AverageCostperpatientforOrthopedicSurgery=TotalCostTotalNumberofPatients=$1,299,000200=$6,495

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Question: Compare Apple’s and Google’s income statements and answer the following.

Required

1. Which company has a higher ratio of costs, defined as cost of goods sold plus total operating expenses, to revenues? Use the two most recent years’ income statements from Appendix A. Show your analysis.

2. How might the use of activity-based costing help the less competitive company becomemorecompetitive?

3. Assume Apple is considering opening a new retail store. What are the activities associated with opening a new retail store?

Laval produces lamps and home lighting fixtures. Its most popular product is a brushed aluminum desk lamp. This lamp is made from components shaped in the fabricating department and assembled in the assembly department. Information related to the 35,000 desk lamps produced annually follows.

Direct materials

\(280,000

Direct labor

Fabricating department (7,000 DLH × \)20 per DLH)

\(140,000

Assembly department (16,000 DLH × \)29 per DLH)

\(464,000

Machine hours

Fabricating department.

15,040 MH

Assembly department

21,000 MH

Expected overhead cost and related data for the two production departments follow.

Fabricating

Assembly

Direct labor hours

75,000 DLH

125,000 DLH

Machine hours

80,000 MH

62,500 MH

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$200,000

Required

  1. Determine the plantwide overhead rate for Laval using direct labor hours as a base.
  2. Determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamp using the plantwide overhead rate.
  3. Compute departmental overhead rates based on machine hours in the fabricating department and direct labor hours in the assembly department.
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The chief executive officer (CEO) of your company recently returned from a luncheon meeting

where activity-based costing was presented and discussed. Though her background is not in accounting, she has worked for the company for 15 years and is thoroughly familiar with its operations. Her impression of the presentation about ABC was that it was just another way of dividing up total overhead cost and that the total would still be the same “no matter how you sliced it.”

Required

Write a memorandum to the CEO, no more than one page, explaining how ABC is different from traditional volume-based costing methods. Also, identify its advantages and disadvantages vis-à-vis traditional methods. Be sure it is written to be understandable to someone who is not an accountant.

1. If management wants the most accurate product cost, which of the following costing methods should be used?

  1. Volume-based costing using departmental overhead rates
  2. Volume-based costing using a plantwide overhead rate
  3. Normal costing using a plantwide overhead rate
  4. Activity-based costing

2. Which costing method tends to overstate the cost of high-volume products?

  1. Traditional volume-based costing
  2. Activity-based costing
  3. Job order costing
  4. Differential costing

3. Disadvantages of activity-based costing include

  1. It is not acceptable under GAAP for external reporting management
  2. It can be costly to implement.
  3. It can be used activity-based.
  4. Both a. and b.

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