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5 - 1©2003 Prentice Hall Business Publishing, Cost Accounting 11/e, Horngren/Datar/Foster

Activity-Based Costing andActivity-Based ManagementActivity-Based Costing andActivity-Based Management

Chapter 5


Learning Objective 1

Explain undercosting

and overcosting of

products and services.


Undercosting andOvercosting Example


Jose, Roberta, and Nancy orderseparate items for lunch.

Jose’s order amounts to $14Roberta consumed 30Nancy’s order is 16Total $60

What is the average cost per lunch?



$60 ÷ 3 = $20

Jose and Nancyare overcosted.

Roberta isundercosted.



Present three guidelines for

refining a costing system.


Existing Single Indirect-Cost Pool System Example


Kole Corporation manufactures a normal lens(NL) and a complex lens (CL).

Kole currently uses a single indirect-cost ratejob costing system.

Cost objects: 80,000 (NL) and 20,000 (CL).




Normal Lenses (NL)Direct materials $1,520,000Direct mfg. labor 800,000Total direct costs $2,320,000

Direct cost per unit: $2,320,000 ÷ 80,000 = $29




Complex Lenses (CL)Direct materials $ 920,000Direct mfg. labor 260,000Total direct costs $1,180,000

Direct cost per unit: $1,180,000 ÷ 20,000 = $59




All Indirect Costs$2,900,000

All Indirect Costs$2,900,000

50,000 DirectManufacturingLabor-Hours

50,000 DirectManufacturingLabor-Hours

INDIRECT-COSTPOLL

INDIRECTCOST-ALLOCATIONBASE

$58 per DirectManufacturing

Labor-Hour




Indirect Costs

Direct Costs

Indirect Costs

Direct Costs

COST OBJECT:NL AND CLLENSES

DIRECTCOSTS

DirectMaterials

DirectMaterials

DirectManufacturing

Labor

DirectManufacturing

Labor




Kole uses 36,000 direct manufacturinglabor-hours to make NL and 14,000 directmanufacturing labor-hours to make CL.

How much indirect costs are allocatedto each product?




NL: 36,000 × $58 = $2,088,000

CL: 14,000 × $58 = $812,000

What is the total cost of normal lenses?

Direct costs $2,320,000 +Allocated costs $2,088,000 = $4,408,000

What is the cost per unit?

$4,408,000 ÷ 80,000 = $55.10




What is the total cost of complex lenses?

Direct costs $1,180,000 + Allocated costs $812,000 = $1,992,000

What is the cost per unit?

$1,992,000 ÷ 20,000 = $99.60




Normal lenses sell for $60 each andcomplex lenses for $142 each.

Normal Complex Revenue $60.00 $142.00 Cost 55.10 99.60 Income $ 4.90 $ 42.40 Margin 8.2% 29.9%


Refining a Costing System

Direct-cost tracing

Indirect-cost pools

Cost-allocation basis


Refining a Costing SystemRefining a Costing System

1. Design of Products and Process

The Design Department designs the moldsand defines processes needed (details of

the manufacturing operations).


Refining a Costing SystemRefining a Costing System

2. Manufacturing Operations

Lenses are molded, finished,cleaned, and inspected.

3. Shipping and Distribution

Finished lenses are packed andsent to the various customers.



Distinguish between the

traditional and the

activity-based costing

approaches to designing

a costing system.


Activity-Based Costing SystemActivity-Based Costing System

FundamentalCost Objects

Activities

Costs of Activities

Assignment to OtherCost Objects

Cost of:• Product• Service• Customer



A cross-functional team at KoleCorporation identified key activities:

Design products and processes.

Set up molding machine.

Operate machines to manufacture lenses.

Maintain and clean the molds.



Set up batches of finished lenses for shipment.

Distribute lenses to customers.

Administer and manage all processes.



No. ofSetupHours

LensesNL

LensesCL

LensesOther

CostAllocationBase

ProductCostObjects

No. ofShipments

Parts-Square

feet

SetupDesign ShippingActivityIndirect CostPool



NL CL Quantity produced 80,000 20,000 No. produced/batch 250 50 Number of batches 320 400 Setup time per batch 2 hours 5 hours Total setup-hours 640 2,000

Total setup costs are $409,200.



What is the setup cost per setup-hour?

$409,200 ÷ 2,640 hours = $155

What is the setup cost perdirect manufacturing labor-hour?

$409,200 ÷ 50,000 = $8.184



Allocation using direct labor-hours:NL: $8.184 × 36,000 = $294,624CL: $8.184 × 14,000 = $114,576Total $409,200

Allocation using setup-hours:NL: $155 × 640 = $ 99,200CL: $155 × 2,000 = $310,000Total $409,200



Describe a four-part

cost hierarchy.


Cost HierarchiesCost Hierarchies

A cost hierarchy is a categorizationof costs into different cost pools.

Cost drivers bases (cost-allocation bases)

Degrees of difficulty in determiningcause-and-effect relationships


Cost HierarchiesCost Hierarchies

ABC systems commonly use afour-part cost hierarchy to

identify cost-allocation bases:

1. Output unit-level costs

2. Batch-level costs

3. Product-sustaining costs

4. Facility-sustaining costs


Output Unit-Level CostsOutput Unit-Level Costs

These are resources sacrificedon activities performed on each

individual unit of product or service.

Energy

Machine depreciation

Repairs


Batch-Level CostsBatch-Level Costs

These are resources sacrificed onactivities that are related to a groupof units of product(s) or service(s)rather than to each individual unit

of product or service.

Setup-hours

Procurement costs


Product-Sustaining CostsProduct-Sustaining Costs

These are often called service-sustainingcosts and are resources sacrificed on

activities undertaken to supportindividual products or services.

Design costs

Engineering costs


Facility-Sustaining CostsFacility-Sustaining Costs

These are resources sacrificed onactivities that cannot be traced to

individual products or services butsupport the organization as a whole.

General administration

– rent – building security



Cost products or services using

activity-based costing.


ImplementingActivity-Based Costing


Identify cost objects.

NLCL

Identify the direct costsof the products.

Direct materialDirect labor

Mold cleaning and maintenance

Step 1 Step 2




Cleaning and maintenance costs of$360,000 are direct batch-level costs.

Why?

Because these costs consist of workers’wages for cleaning molds after each

batch of lenses is run.




Normal Lenses (NL)Cost Hierarchy

Description CategoryDirect materials Unit-level $1,520,000Direct mfg. labor Unit-level 800,000Cleaning and maint. Batch-level 160,000Total direct costs $2,480,000




Complex Lenses (CL)Cost Hierarchy

Description CategoryDirect materials Unit-level $ 920,000Direct mfg. labor Unit-level 260,000Cleaning and maint. Batch-level 200,000Total direct costs $1,380,000




Select the cost-allocation bases to use forallocating indirect costs to the products.

(1) (2) (3)Activity Cost Hierarchy Total CostsDesign Product-sustaining $450,000Setups Batch-level $409,200Operations Unit-level $637,500

Step 3




Identify the indirect costs associatedwith each cost-allocation base.

Overhead costs incurred are assignedto activities, to the extent possible, on

the basis of a cause-and-effect relationship.

Step 4




Compute the rate per unit.

(1) (5)NL CL Total

Setup-hours: 640 2,000 2,640

Step 5

$409,200 ÷ 2,640 = $155




Compute the indirect costs allocatedto the products.

NL: $155 × 640 = $ 99,200CL: $155 × 2,000 = 310,000Total $409,200

Step 6




Compute the costs of the products.

NL and CL would show threedirect cost categories.

Step 7

1. Direct materials

2. Direct manufacturing labor

3. Cleaning and maintenance




NL and CL would show six indirect cost pools.

1. Design

2. Molding machine setups

3. Manufacturing operations

4. Shipment setup

5. Distribution

6. Administration



Use activity-based

costing systems for

activity-based management.


Activity-Based ManagementActivity-Based Management

ABM describes management decisions that useactivity-based costing information to satisfy

customers and improve profits.

Product pricing and mix decisions

Cost reduction and process improvement decisions

Design decisions


Product Pricing andMix Decisions

Product Pricing andMix Decisions

ABC gives management insight into the coststructures for making and selling diverse products.

It provides more accurate product costinformation and more detailed information

on costs of activities and the drivers of those costs.


Cost Reduction and ProcessImprovement Decisions

Cost Reduction and ProcessImprovement Decisions

Manufacturing and distribution personnel useABC systems to focus on cost-reduction efforts.

Managers set cost-reduction targets in terms ofreducing the cost per unit of the cost-allocation base.


Design DecisionsDesign Decisions

Management can identify and evaluate new designsto improve performance by evaluating how product

and process designs affect activities and costs.

Companies can work with their customers toevaluate the costs and prices of alternative designs.



Compare activity-based costing

systems and department-

costing systems.


ABC and DepartmentIndirect-Cost Rates


Many companies have evolved theircosting system from using a single

cost pool to using separate indirect-costrates for each department:

Design

Manufacturing

Distribution




Why?

Because the cost drivers of resources in eachdepartment or subdepartment differ from thesingle, company-wide, cost-allocation base.

ABC systems are a further refinement ofdepartment costing systems.



Evaluate the costs and benefits

of implementing activity-based

costing systems.


Benefits of ABC SystemsBenefits of ABC Systems

Significant amounts of indirect costs areallocated using only one or two cost pools.

All or most costs are identifiedas output unit-level costs.

Products make diverse demands onresources because of differences involume, process steps, batch size,

or complexity.



Products that a company is well-suited tomake and sell show small profits whileproducts for which a company is less

suited show large profits.

Complex products appear to be veryprofitable and simple products

appear to be losing money.



Operations staff have significantdisagreements with the accounting

staff about the costs of manufacturingand marketing products and services.


Limitations of ABC SystemsLimitations of ABC Systems

The main limitations of ABC are themeasurements necessary to

implement the system.

ABC systems require managementto estimate costs of activity poolsand to identify and measure cost

drivers for these pools.


Limitations of ABC SystemsLimitations of ABC Systems

Activity-cost rates also need to beupdated regularly.

Very detailed ABC systems are costlyto operate and difficult to understand.


ABC In Service andMerchandising Companies


The general approach to ABC in theservice and merchandising areas is very

similar to the approach in manufacturing.

Costs are divided into homogeneous costpools and classified as output unit-level,

batch-level, product- or service-sustaining,and facility-sustaining costs.




The cost pools correspond to key activities.

Costs are allocated to products or customersusing activity drivers or cost-allocation

bases that have a cause-and-effectrelationship with the cost in the cost pool.


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