Joint-cost allocation. Elsie Dairy Products Corp. buys one input‚ full-cream milk‚ and refines it in a churning process. From each gallon of milk Elsie produces three cups of butter and nine cups of buttermilk. During May 2010‚ Elsie bought 12‚000 gallons of milk for $22‚250. Elsie spent another $9‚430 on the churning process to separate the milk into butter and buttermilk. Butter could be sold immediately for $2.20 per pound and buttermilk could be sold immediately for $1.20 per quart (note: two
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Cost Allocation at Water Purification Group Mary May pushed the door to her office thinking about her plan to enrol her daughter for a medical degree at a private university. The private university is the only institution of higher learning that her daughter can apply for‚ considering her high school results. Mary sat down at her table and a smile came to her lips. Her financial situation will definitely improve after the company‚ Bio-Organics‚ announce this year’s bonuses. Project ORG7 she
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1. Service Cost Allocations CLASS: Teck Tecky Water Services provides water for Departments A‚B and C and has prepared its total budget using the following information for the next year:- Fixed Costs $300‚000 Budgeted Gallon Usage:- Variable Costs $0.10 per gallon Dept. A 2‚500‚000 gallons Available capacity 10‚000‚000 gallons Dept. B 2‚000‚000 gallons Dept C 1‚500‚000 gallons Instructions: Assuming that the single-rate method is used and the allocation base is budgeted
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Florio Project Costing Allocation of resources to project tasks (labor and material): Resource allocation is critical since it involves the planning of all the resources required for our project. This will help us utilize only the amount of resources required for the project. As Project managers‚ often times we have to work in limited budgets. If we are able to do resource allocation efficiently‚ it can facilitate the project since resource allocation is one of the most difficult an important
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CHAPTER 16 COST ALLOCATION: JOINT PRODUCTS AND BYPRODUCTS 16-1 Exhibit 16-1 presents many examples of joint products from four different general industries. These include: Industry Separable Products at the Splitoff Point Food Processing: • Lamb • Lamb cuts‚ tripe‚ hides‚ bones‚ fat • Turkey • Breasts‚ wings‚ thighs‚ poultry meal Extractive: • Petroleum • Crude oil‚ natural gas 16-2 A joint cost is a cost of a production process that yields multiple products simultaneously. A separable
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Cost Allocations & Activity Based Costing (ABC) Abstract The cost allocation is a process of assigning costs to different activities. There is several methodology of cost allocation. The cost driver allocates costs into different activities and locations. Health organizations use different allocation methods according to their needs to attain organization and profitability. The purpose of allocation is to make the understanding
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Manufacturing Overhead Name Institution Manufacturing Overhead Manufacturing overhead costs play a vital role in determining final cost of the product. Manufacturing overhead represents all the costs that the company incurs indirectly and not related to the cost of direct labor‚ direct materials or direct cost of machines (Donald‚ 2010). In short‚ companies are not able to trace these costs to individual items during the manufacturing process. Examples of overhead costs
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2008 Mr. Burns called for a formal analysis of the company’s options with regard to business opportunities. Location was the first issue considered in the analysis. Greetings stores are located in high-traffic malls where rental costs are high. The additional rental cost was justified‚ however‚ by the revenue that resulted from these highly visible locations. In recent years‚ though‚ the intense competition from other stores in the mall selling similar merchandise has become a disadvantage of the
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following questions to help you get familiar with the numbers. Pay particular attention to question 6. 1. The overhead allocation rate used in the 1987 model year strategy study at the Automotive Component & Fabrication Plant (ACF) was 435% of direct labor dollar cost. Calculate the overhead allocation rate using the 1987 model year budget. Calculate the overhead allocation rate for each of the model years 1988 through 1990. Are the changes since
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1. A company uses a predetermined overhead recovery rate based on machine hours. Budgeted factory overhead for a year amounted to £720 000‚ but actual factory overhead incurred was £738 000. During the year‚ the company absorbed £714 000 of factory overhead on 119 000 actual machine hours. What was the company’s budgeted level of machine hours for the year? A 116098 B 119000
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