Select one of the following Internet assignments and write a 1 to 1 page paper (3-5 paragraphs) APA style with a cover page and a reference page, Courier New, 12-pitch, using 1 inch margins. Be sure to include a short summary paragraph with a heading.
Internet Exercise #1
Perform an Internet search using the term, activity based costing customer success stories, and locate an article (less than one year old) from the results of your search. (Make sure that you do not select an instructors lecture notes or a class assignment from the results of your search.) After reading the article, write a brief paper (3 5 paragraphs) that summarizes and comments on the article. (Your paper should provide the appropriate citation(s). If necessary, you may wish to refer to the following website, which includes information about citations: http://www.cod.edu/library/research/citenet.htm.)Question: Define the following terms:
1.Direct Materials.
2.Indirect Materials.
3.Direct Labor.
4.Indirect Labor.
5.Manufacturing OverheadQuestion: What is meant by contribution martin ratio? How is this ratio useful in planning business operations?Question: Your Boat, Inc. assembles custom sailboats from components supplied by various manufacturers. The company is very small and its assembly shop and retail sales store are housed in a Gig Harbor, Washington, boathouse. Below are listed some of the costs that are incurred at the company.
Required:
For each cost, indicate whether it would most likely be classified as direct labor, direct materials, manufacturing overhead, selling, or an administrative cost.
1.The wages of employees who build the sailboats..
2.The cost of advertising in the local newspapers..
3.The cost of an aluminum mast installed in a sailboat..
4.The wages of the assembly shops supervisor.
5.Rent on the boathouse.
6.The wages of the companys bookkeeper..
7.Sales commissions paid to the companys salespeople..
8.Depreciation on power towels.Question: Koffee Express operates a number of espresso coffee stands in busy suburban malls. The fixed weekly expense of a coffee stand is $1,100 and the variable cost per cup of coffee served is $.26.Required:
1. Fill in the following table with your estimates of total costs and average costs per cup of coffee at the indicated levels of activity for a coffee stand. Round off the cost of a cup of coffee to the nearest tenth of a cent.
Does the average cost per cup served increase, decrease, or remain the same as the number of cups of coffee served in a week increases? Explain.Cups of Coffee Served in a Week
1,800 1,900 2,000
Fixed Cost ? ? ?
Variable costs ? ? ?
Total cost ? ? ?
Average cost per cup of coffee served ? ? ?Does the average cost per cup served increase, decrease, or remain the same as the number of cups of coffee served in a week increases? Explain.
Question: Preparing a Contribution Format Income Statement. (LO 3-1) Wheeler Corporations most recent income statement follows.
Total Per Unit
Sales (8,000 units) $208,000 $26.00
Variable expenses 244.000 18.00
Contribution margin 64.00 $8.00
Fixed expenses 56.00
Net Operating income $8,000
Required:
Prepare a new Contribution format income statement under each of the following conditions (consider each case independently):
1. The sales volume increases by 50 units
2. The sales volume declines by 50 units.
3. The sales volume is 7,000 units.Question: Computing Job Costs
Weaver Companys predetermined overhead rate is $18.00 per direct labor-hour and its direct labor wage rate is $12.00 per hour. The following information pertains to Job A-200.
Direct Materials . $200
Direct Labor .. $120
Required:
What is the total manufacturing cost assigned to Job a-200?
If Job A-200 consists of 50 units, what is the average cost assigned to each unit included in the job?Question: What is the basic difference between absorption costing and variable costing?
Question: What is a segment of an organization? Give 3 examples of segments.
Question: What are unit-level, batch-level, product-level, customer-level, and organizational-level sustaining activities?
Question: Why are there two stages of allocation in activity-based costing?