Week4assignment-4_Acme Manufacturing_ABC Costing

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Acme Manufacturing Company of Portland, Oregon has a Research & Development department that currently provides services to in-house manufacturing departments.  Other manufacuturers have expressed interested in using Acme's R&D department for special projects.  Management has decided to conduct an activity-based costing system in order to determine charges for both outside and in-house users of the department's services.   

 
        
         
         
         
         
         
         
 R&D activities fall into four pools with the following annual costs:   
         
  Market Analysis        10,50,000    
  Product Design        23,50,000    
  Product Development        36,00,000    
  Prototype Testing        14,00,000    
         
         
 Activity analysis determines that the appropriate cost drivers and their usage for the four activities are:
         
  Activities Cost Drivers Total Estimated Drivers 
         
  Market Analysis Hours of analysis1500 hours  
  Product Design Number of designs2500 designs 
  Product Development Number of products90 products  
  Prototype Testing Number of tests500 tests  
         
         
 a) Compute the activity-based overhead rate for each pool.  Use appropriate excel formulas to show your work
         
  Market Analysis      
  Product Design      
  Product Development      
  Prototype Testing      
         
 b) How much cost would be charged to an in-house manufacturing department that consumed 1,800 hours of 
 market analysis time, was provided 280 designs relating to 10 products and requested 92 engineering tests? 
 Show your work.      
         
  Market Analysis      
  Product Design      
  Product Development      
  Prototype Testing      
  Total      
         
 c) How much cost would serve as the basis for for pricing an R&D bid with an outside company on a contract that
 would consume 800 hours of analysis time, require 178 designs relating to 3 products, and result in 70 engineering tests?
 Show your work.      
         
  Market Analysis      
  Product Design      
  Product Development      
  Prototype Testing      
  Total      
         
 d) What is the benefit to Acme Manufacturing of applying activity-based costing to its R&D activity for both
 in-house and outside charging purposes?    
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