Required: If required, round all per unit amounts to the nearest cent. A. Determine the activity rate for each activity. Production per machine hour Setup  per setup Inspection per inspection Shipping  per cust. ord. Customer service  per customer service request B.Determine the total and per-unit activity cost for all three products.   Total Activity Cost Activity Cost Per Unit White sugar $fill in the blank  $fill in the blank  Brown sugar fill in the blank  fill in the blank  Powdered sugar fill in the blank  fill in the blank  C.Why aren’t the activity unit costs equal across all three products since they require the same machine time per unit?

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1-Sweet Sugar Company manufactures three products (white sugar, brown sugar, and powdered sugar) in a continuous production process. Senior management has asked the controller to conduct an activity-based costing study. The controller identified the amount of factory overhead required by the critical activities of the organization as follows:

Activity Budgeted Activity Cost
Production   $500,000  
Setup   144,000  
Inspection   44,000  
Shipping   115,000  
Customer Service   84,000  
  Total   $887,000  

 

The activity bases identified for each activity are as follows:

Activity Activity Base
Production Machine hours
Setup Number of setups
Inspection Number of inspections
Shipping Number of customer orders
Customer Service Number of customer service requests

 

The activity-base usage quantities and units produced for the three products were determined from corporate records and are as follows:

    Machine Hours   Number of Setups   Number of Inspections   Number of Customer Orders   Customer Service Requests   Units
White sugar 5,000     85     220     1,150     60     10,000
Brown sugar 2,500 170 330 2,600 350 5,000
Powdered sugar 2,500 195 550 2,000 190 5,000
  Total 10,000 450 1,100 5,750 600 20,000

 

Each product requires 0.5 machine hour per unit.

Required:

If required, round all per unit amounts to the nearest cent.

A. Determine the activity rate for each activity.

Production per machine hour
Setup  per setup
Inspection per inspection
Shipping  per cust. ord.
Customer service  per customer service request

B.Determine the total and per-unit activity cost for all three products.

  Total Activity Cost Activity Cost Per Unit
White sugar $fill in the blank  $fill in the blank 
Brown sugar fill in the blank  fill in the blank 
Powdered sugar fill in the blank  fill in the blank 

C.Why aren’t the activity unit costs equal across all three products since they require the same machine time per unit?

The unit costs are different because the products consume many activities in ratios different from the ....

2-Blue Star Airline provides passenger airline service, using small jets. The airline connects four major cities: Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and San Francisco. The company expects to fly 170,000 miles during a month. The following costs are budgeted for a month:

Fuel $2,120,000
Ground personnel 788,500
Crew salaries 850,000
Depreciation 430,000
    Total costs $4,188,500

 

Blue Star management wishes to assign these costs to individual flights in order to gauge the profitability of its service offerings. The following activity bases were identified with the budgeted costs:

Airline Cost Activity Base
Fuel, crew, and depreciation costs Number of miles flown
Ground personnel Number of arrivals and departures at an airport

 

The size of the company's ground operation in each city is determined by the size of the workforce. The following monthly data are available from corporate records for each terminal operation:

Terminal City   Ground Personnel Cost   Number of Arrivals/Departures
Charlotte     $256,000       320  
Pittsburgh     97,500       130  
Detroit     129,000       150  
San Francisco     306,000       340  
  Total     $788,500       940  

 

Three recent representative flights have been selected for the profitability study. Their characteristics are as follows:

  Description Miles Flown Number of Passengers Ticket Price per Passenger
Flight 101 Charlotte to San Francisco 2,000   80   $695.00  
Flight 102 Detroit to Charlotte 800   50   441.50  
Flight 103 Charlotte to Pittsburgh 400   20   382.00  

 

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A. Determine the fuel, crew, and depreciation cost per mile flown.
$fill in the blank per mile

B. Determine the cost per arrival or departure by terminal city.

Charlotte $fill in the blank 
Pittsburgh $fill in the blank 
Detroit $fill in the blank
San Francisco $fill in the blank 
 

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C. Use the information in (1) and (2) to construct a profitability report for the three flights. Each flight has a single arrival and departure to its origin and destination city pairs. Enter all amounts as positive numbers, except for a negative income from operations.

Blue Star AirlineFlight Profitability ReportFor Three Representative Flights
  Flight 101 Flight 102 Flight 103
Passenger revenue $fill in the blank  $fill in the blank  $fill in the blank 
Fuel, crew, and depreciation costs $fill in the blank  $fill in the blank  $fill in the blank 
Ground personnel fill in the blank  fill in the blank  fill in the blank 
  $fill in the blank  $fill in the blank  $fill in the blank 
Flight income from operations $fill in the blank  $fill in the blank  $fill in the blank 
 

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