Reference no: EM132573813
Company XYZ has 2 fixed price contracts for 2 different clients apart from other contracts. The company has enough capacity for both contracts but is uncertain whether they will be profitable.
Customer Bright Dull
Component Type AAA BBB
Contract Quantity 1,000 unit 2,000 units
Material cost/unit $15 $20
Moulding time/batch 5 hours 7.5 hours
Batch Size 100 units 50 units
Annual Budgeted overheads as follows:
Activity Cost Driver Cost driver Cost pool
volume/year
Moulding Moulding hours 2,000 $150,000
Inspection Batches 150 $75,000
Production Management Contracts 20 $125,000
Labor cost for product AAA is Rs. 10/unit while for product BBB is Rs. 15 per unit.
Previously company was using traditional system and Machine hours were used for allocation. Total Machine hours were 700,000/- Product AAA used 400,000 machine hours whereas product BBB uses 300,000 machine hours.
Required :-
Question a. Find out cost of both products under Traditional and ABC system and compare the results.
Question b. Out of Marginal and Absorption costing methods which costing approach is better and why?