Answer:
Espinoza Company
Activity rate for the filling orders activity cost pool:
Overhead for filling orders divided by number of orders
= $130,500/3,500
= $37.29 per order
Explanation:
a) Data and Calculations:
Overhead costs:
Wages and salaries 220,000
Other expenses 150,000
Total $510,000
Distribution of resource consumption:
Filling Orders Activity Cost Pools
Filling Orders Customer Support Other Total
Wages and salaries 35% 55% 10% 100%
Other expenses 35% 50% 15% 100%
Filling orders 3,500 orders
Customer support 15 customers
Overhead Allocation:
Filling Orders Customer Other Total
Support
Wages and salaries $77,000 $121,000 $22,000 $220,000
Other expenses 53,500 75,000 22,500 150,000
Total $130,500 $196,000 $44,500 $370,000
Activity rate for filling orders = $130,500/3,500 = $37.29 per order
ABC or Activity Based Costing technique uses activity pools to accumulate and distribute overhead costs so that costs can be allocated based on the level of activity undertaken for each activity pool.
