CHAPTER 3 Predetermined Overhead Rates‚ Flexible Budgets‚ and Absorption/Variable Costing Questions 1. Although both variable and mixed costs change in total with activity measure changes‚ the difference is that variable costs change in direct proportion to such activity changes and mixed costs do not. Since a mixed cost has both a fixed and variable component‚ the cost per unit at different activity levels is not constant as it is with a variable cost. 2. No‚ these are not always the best points
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Ethics; Predetermined Overhead Rate and Capacity Pat Miranda‚ the new controller of Vault Hard Drives‚ Inc.‚ has just returned from a seminar on the choice of the activity level in the predetermined overhead rate. Even though the subject did not sound exciting at first‚ she found that there were some important ideas presented that should get a hearing at her company. After returning from the seminar‚ she arranged a meeting with the production manager‚ J. Stevens‚ and the assistant production manager
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Enterprises uses machine hours as the cost driver to assign overhead costs to the air conditioners. The company has used a company-wide predetermined overhead rate in past years‚ but the new controller‚ Bennie Leon‚ is considering the use of departmental overhead rates beginning with the next year. The following planning information is available for the next year for each the four manufacturing departments within the company: Overhead Machine
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Bridgeton Assignment 1. The overhead allocation rate used in the 1987 model year strategy study at the Automotive Component & Fabrication Plant (ACF) was 435% of direct labor dollar cost. Calculate the overhead allocation rate using the 1987 model year budget. Why do you get different numbers? 2. Calculate the overhead allocation rate for each of the model years 1988 through 1990. Are the changes since 1987 in overhead allocation rates significant? Why have these changes occurred? 3
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1. On 1st Jan’ 1988 Megha corporation issued eight percent 50‚ 00‚000 bonds of Rs 100 each at Rs 103. Issue cost was 0.5% of the amount raised. On 1st Jan 2008‚ Five years before its maturity the firm wanted to call the bonds at Rs 108. The corporation spent Rs 80‚000 on reacquisition of bonds. What accounting entries would be passed in the books of Megha Corporation? 2. On 1st January 2009 Shweta corporation purchased 10‚00‚000 of its fully paid shares at Rs 22 per share. On 20th January 2009
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1. A company uses a predetermined overhead recovery rate based on machine hours. Budgeted factory overhead for a year amounted to £720 000‚ but actual factory overhead incurred was £738 000. During the year‚ the company absorbed £714 000 of factory overhead on 119 000 actual machine hours. What was the company’s budgeted level of machine hours for the year? A 116098 B 119000
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Departmental Overhead Rates; Underapplied or Overapplied Overhead 1. a. Predetermined Overhead rate= Estimated total manufacturing overhead costs Estimated total amount of allocation base | = $1‚440‚000 = 160% of direct labor costs $900‚000 direct labor costs | b. Hastings Job Direct Labor -Allocation Base × Plantwide Overhead Rate
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Chapter 14 - Base Rate Base rate is the mean number of times an event occurs divided by the mean number of times it might occur. Representativeness is a bias when people wholly and exclusively rely on pre-conceived notions. Empirical evidence suggests that people formulate their judgments by relying on representativeness and neglect the base rate. This results in sub-optimal judgments and guesses. Given a plausible base rate‚ the anchoring of judgment of the probability of an outcome whilst putting
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same characters‚ especially given that there are often different writers behind them. Maybe it’s because he gets all his friends to essentially themselves in his films‚ and that’s why they end up feeling like there’s no variety in his films. Adam Sandler plays the same character he played in ‘Click’‚ ‘Grown Ups’‚ ‘Blended’‚ ‘Just Go With It’‚ and ‘Bedtime Stories’‚ the only difference being his occupation and situation. Kevin James plays his character from ‘Grown Ups’‚ if Lamonsoff became President
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THE BUSINESS SITUATION Greetings Inc. has operated for many years as a nationally recognized retailer of greeting cards and small gift items. It has 1‚500 stores throughout the United States located in high-traffic malls. As the stock price of many other companies soared‚ Greetings’ stock price remained flat. As a result of a heated 2007 shareholders’ meeting‚ the president of Greetings‚ Robert Burns‚ came under pressure from shareholders to grow Greetings’ stock value. As a consequence
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