Chapter 19: Q19-24RQ (page 1063)
Why are some quality costs hard to measure?
Quality costs are hard to measure due to the lack of certain measurements or due to nonfinancial events.
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Why is JIT costing sometimes called backflush costing?
Question:Stella, Inc. is using a costs-of-quality approach to evaluate design engineering efforts for a new skateboard. Stella’s senior managers expect the engineering work to reduce appraisal, internal failure, and external failure activities. The predicted reductions in activities over the two-year life of the skateboards follow. Also shown are the predetermined overhead allocation rates for each activity.
Activity Predicted Predetermined
Reduction in Overhead Allocation
Activity Units Rate per Unit
Inspection of incoming raw materials 390 \( 44
Inspection of finished goods 390 19
Number of defective units discovered in-house 1,200 50
Number of defective units discovered by customers 325 72
Lost profits due to dissatisfied customers 75 102
Requirements
2. Stella spent \)103,000 on design engineering for the new skateboard. What is the net benefit of this “preventive” quality activity?
Turbo Champs Corp. uses activity-based costing to account for its motorcycle manufacturing process. Company managers have identified three supporting manufacturing activities: inspection, machine setup, and machine maintenance. The budgeted activity costs for 2018 and their allocation bases are as follows:
Activity Total Budgeted Cost Allocation Base
Inspections \( 5,700 Number of inspections
Machine setup 22,000 Number of setups
Machine maintenance 6,000 Finishing of machine hours
Total \) 33,700
Turbo Champs expects to produce 20 custom-built motorcycles for the year. The motorcycles are expected to require 100 inspections, 40 setups, and 100 machine hours.
Requirements
1. Compute the predetermined overhead allocation rate for each activity.
Willette Pharmaceuticals manufactures an over-the-counter allergy medication. The company sells both large commercial containers of 1,000 capsules to health care facilities and travel packs of 20 capsules to shops in airports, train stations, and hotels. The following information has been developed to determine if an activity-based costing system would be beneficial:
Activity Estimated Estimated Quantity
Indirect Cost Allocation Base of Allocation Base
Materials handling \( 95,000 Number of kilos 19,000 kilos
Packaging 200,000 Number of machine hours 5,000 hours
Quality assurance 112,500 Number of samples 1,875 samples
Total indirect costs \) 407,500
Actual production information includes the following:
Commercial Containers Travel Packs
Units produced 2,400 containers 50,000 packs
Weight in kilos 9,600 5,000
Machine hours 1,680 500
Number of samples 240 750
Requirements
1. Willitte’s original single plantwide overhead allocation rate costing system allocated indirect costs to products at $81.50 per machine hour. Compute the total indirect costs allocated to the commercial containers and to the travel packs under the original system. Then compute the indirect cost per unit for each product. Round to two decimal places.
The Oakman Company manufactures products in two departments: Mixing and Packaging. The company allocates manufacturing overhead using a single plantwide rate with direct labor hours as the allocation base. Estimated overhead costs for the year are $810,000, and estimated direct labor hours are 360,000. In October, the company incurred 20,000 direct labor hours.
Requirements
2. Determine the amount of overhead allocated in October.
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