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Chapter
8
Learning Objectives
1. Understand the potential effects of using reported
product costs for decision making.
2. Explain how a two-stage product costing system
works.
3. Compare and contrast plantwide and department
allocation methods.
4. Explain how activity-based costing and a two-stage
product system are related.
5. Compute product costs using activity-based
costing.
6. Compare activity-based product costing to
traditional department product costing methods.
7. Demonstrate the flow of costs through accounts
using activity-based costing.
8. Apply activity-based costing to marketing and
administrative services.
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Two-Stage
Allocation
L.O. 2. Explain how a two-stage product costing
system works.
Systems
Stage One Allocate overhead costs to
departments.
Allocate department
Stage Two overhead costs to the
products or services.
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Intermediat
e Cost Pools
Cost
Allocation
Rule
Overhead
Department
A
Direct Labor
Hours
Department B
Machine
Hours
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Products
Factory
Overhea
d Costs
Department Allocation
Overhead costs traced to separate
departments and applied to products using
a department allocation rate.
One cost pool for each department
Assembly
Departmen
t Overhead
Costs
Each
departme
nt has an
allocation
rate
Products
Packaging
Departme
nt
Overhead
Costs
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Cost Allocation: An
Production and Cost
Data
Manufacturing
Example Port ArthurFacility
Third
Quarter
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Overhead
Intermediat
e Cost Pools
Assembly
Packaging
Cost
Allocation
Rule
Machine
Hours
Direct
Labor Cost
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Similar products
using same
Plantwide
resources
Allocation
Multiple products
using resources
differently
Department
Allocation
Activity-Based Costing
L.O. 4 Explain how activity-based costing
(ABC)
and a two-stage product system are
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related.
Activity-Based Costing
Costing method that first assigns costs to
activities and then allocate them to
products based on the products
consumption of activities.
Stage One
Stage Two
ABC Continued
Activities
consume
resources
Products
consume
activities
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Developing Activity-Based
Costing
1. Identify the activities that consume
resources and assign costs to them.
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Cost Drivers
Factors that cause or drive an activitys
costs.
Identified activity
Number of orders
Setting up equipment
Number of set-ups
Purchasing materials
Cost Allocation
Pools
Plantwid
e
One pool
Departmen
t
As many pools
as
departments
ABC
As many pools
as activities and
cost drivers
identified
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Overhead
Assign costs to
activities
Set-up
Allocate
costs to
products
based on
the use of
each
activity
Setup
hours
Handle
Material
Machine
Production
runs
Products
Machine
hours
Pack &
Ship
Shipments
Cost Hierarchy
Classification of cost drivers into general
levels of activity; volume, batch, product
and so on.
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Cost Hierarchy
Classification of cost drivers into general
levels of activity; volume, batch, product
and so on.
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Cost Hierarchy
Classification of cost drivers into general
levels of activity; volume, batch, product
and so on.
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Cost Hierarchy
Classification of cost drivers into general
levels of activity; volume, batch, product
and so on.
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Cost Hierarchy
Classification of cost drivers into general
levels of activity; volume, batch, product
and so on.
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ABC Example
L.O. 5 Compute product costs using activity-based
costing.
Production and Cost
Data
Port Arthur
Manufacturing
Facility
Third
Quarter
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Cost Flow
Activity-Based
Diagram Costing System
Port Arthur Manufacturing
Facility
Overhead costs
Assembl
y
Assemble
Handle
Material
J3MP
Packaging
Setup
Inspect
& Pack
J5MP
Ship
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Material
Inventory 1,500,00
J3MP
1,500,00
0
2,400,00
0
Assembly WIP
DM
2,400,00
J5MP
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J3MP
1,500,00
0
DL 750,000
DM
Wages Payable
750,000
600,000
Assembly WIP
2,400,00
0
DL 600,000
DM
J5MP
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Overhead Costs
Assembling
180,00
0
900,00
0
Setting up
Machines
36,000
360,00
0
Assembly WIP
1,500,00
0
DL 750,000
OH 240,000
DM
Assembly WIP
2,400,00
0
DL 600,000
DM
Handling Material
24,000
120,00
0
J3MP
OH
1,380,00
0
J5MP
DM
2,490,00
0
Assembly WIP
2,400,00
0
DL 600,000
DM
1,380,00
0
OH
J3MP
J5MP
4,380,00
0
Packaging WIP
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J3MP
2,490,00
0
Packaging WIP
4,380,00
0
J5MP
ABC in Administration
L.O. 8 Apply activity-based costing to marketing and
administrative services.
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Chapter 8
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