E18-16
Product costing in an activity-based costing system [15â20 min]
Turbo Champs, Corp., uses activity-based costing to account for its motorcycle
manufacturing
process. Company managers have identified three supporting manufacturing
activities: inspection, machine setup, and machine maintenance. The budgeted
activity costs for 2012 and their allocation bases are as follows:
Inspection
6000
Machine setup 32000
Machine maintenance 5000
Total 43000
Turbo
Champs expects to produce 20 custom-built motorcycles for the year.
The motorcycles are expected to require 100 inspections, 20 setups, and
100 maintenance hours.
Requirements
1. Compute the cost allocation rate for each activity.
2. Compute the indirect manufacturing cost of each motorcycle.