The company uses a job-order cost accounting system with manufacturing overhead applied

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Madison Electric Pump Corporation manufactures electric pumps for commercial use. The company produces three models, designated as regular, advanced, and deluxe. The company uses a job-order cost accounting system with manufacturing overhead applied on the basis of direct-labor hours. The system has been in place with little change for 25 years. Product costs and annual sales data are as follows:

 

Regular Model                Advanced Model               Deluxe Model

Annual sales (units) ..............................     20,000                         1,000                           10,000

Product costs:

Direct material .................................    $ 20                            $ 50                            $ 84

Direct labor .....................................       20 (1 hr. at $20)              40 (2 hr. at $20)              40 (2 hr. at $20)

Manufacturing overhead*  ............... .     170 (1 hr. at $170)            340 (2 hr. at $170)            340 (2 hr. at $170)

                                                                                                                                                                  

Total product cost ................................   $210                            $430                            $464

 

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Depreciation, machinery ...................................................................................................................

$2,960,000

Maintenance, machinery ..................................................................................................................

240,000

Depreciation, taxes, and insurance for factory ....................................................................................

600,000

Engineering .....................................................................................................................................

700,000

Purchasing, receiving and shipping ...................................................................................................

500,000

Inspection and repair of defects ........................................................................................................

750,000

Material handling .............................................................................................................................

800,000

Miscellaneous manufacturing overhead costs ....................................................................................

590,000

Total ................................................................................................................................................

$7,140,000

 

 

*The calculation of the predetermined overhead rate is as follows: Manufacturing-overhead budget:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Direct-labor budget:

Regular model:          20,000 hours

Advanced model:         2,000 hours

Deluxe model:           20,000 hours

Total                         42,000 hours

 

 

Predetermined overhead rate:   Budgeted  overhead       

Budgeted direct-labor hours

 

  $7,140, 000  42,000 hours

 

 

$170 per hour

 

 

For the past 10 years, the company’s pricing formula has been to set each product’s target price at 110 percent of its full product cost. Recently, however, the regular-model pump has come under increas- ing price pressure from offshore competitors. The result was that the price on the regular model has been lowered to $220.

 

 

 

 

The company president recently asked the controller, “Why can’t we compete with these other companies? They’re selling pumps just like our regular model for $212. That’s only two bucks more than our production cost. Are we really that inefficient? What gives?”

The controller responded by saying, “I think this is due to an outmoded product-costing system. As you may remember, I raised a red flag about our system when I came on board last year. But the decision was to keep our current system in place. In my judgment, our product-costing system is distorting our product costs. Let me run a few numbers to demonstrate what I mean.”

Getting the president’s go-ahead, the controller compiled the basic data needed to implement an activity-based costing system. These data are displayed in the following table. The percentages are the proportion of each cost driver consumed by each product line.

 

 

 

 

Activity Cost Pool

 

 

 

Cost Driver

 

 

 

Regular Model

 

Product Lines

Advanced Model

 

 

 

Deluxe Model

 

I:   Depreciation, machinery                            Machine time                        39%              13%             48% Maintenance, machinery

II:  Engineering                                              Engineering hours                  47%               6%             47% Inspection and repair of defects

III:  Purchasing, receiving, and shipping             Number of material orders      47%               8%             45% Material handling

IV:  Depreciation, taxes, and insurance for factory                                         Factory space usage          42%      15%          43% Miscellaneous manufacturing overhead

 

Required:

1.      Compute the target prices for the three pump models, based on the traditional, volume-based product-costing system.

2.      Compute new product costs for the three products, based on the new data collected by the control- ler. Round to the nearest cent.

3.      Calculate a new target price for the three products, based on the activity-based costing system. Compare the new target price with the current actual selling price for the regular model pump.

4.      Write a memo to the company president explaining what has been happening as a result of the firm’s traditional volume-based product-costing system.

5.      What strategic options does management have? What do you recommend, and why?

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