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Chapter 5 Activity Based Costing and Management

The controller for Mumbai Fertilizers Limited has established the following activity cost pools and cost drivcrs.

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Budgeted Overhead Cost $250,000 75,000

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Cost Driver Number of setups Weight of raw material Weight of hazardous chemicals used Number of inspections Machine hours

An order for 1,000 bags of Nitrogen Plus fertilizer has

Machine setups 5 setups Raw material 5,000 kg. Hazardous materials 1,000 kg. Inspections 10 inspections Machine hours 500 machine hours

Required: 1. Compute the total overhead that should be ill15: I 0 2. What is the overhead cost per bag of fertilizer • 3. Suppose Mumbai Fertilizers Limited were to use a siarat+ckicz,… machine hours. Compute the rate per hour. Under the approach in requirement (3). how much overhead emirs fertilizer order! a. In total. h Per bag of fertilizer. Explain why these two prod cupcosting systems result in such wide 6. Build a spreadtheet: Construct an Excel spreadsheet to solve requirelnents ( )ft ( 3), and tern do you recommend’? Why’?

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