Chrom Company manufactures two models, the XL and RD. It also has two departments, Assembly and Finishing. The
company wants to assign budgeted overhead costs to its two different models to better understand the profitability of
each model. The Tableau Dashboard provides data for our analysis.
Budgeted Overhead Costs by Budgeted Direct Labor Hours &
Machine Hours by Department
Department
Finishing
Total:
$8,000,000
150,000 h...
125,000 h...
100,000 h...
75,000 hrs
Assembly
Assembly
50,000 hrs
Assembly
25,000 hrs
Finishing
Finishing
Direct Labor Hours Machine Hours
Budgeted Overhead Costs by
Activity
Cost Driver & Budgeted Usage
by Activity
Supervision
Total:
$8,000,000
Maintenance
Supervision
Maintenance
Note: Total overhead costs by department and total overhead costs by activity are
equal. The costs are presented in two different ways here.
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Tableau DA 17-3 (Static): Mini-Case, Computing overhead activity rates using ABC
Using activity based costing and data from the lower half of the dashboard, compute overhead activity rates for both maintenance
and supervision.
Activity cost pool
Budgeted
Cost
Budgeted
Activity Usage
Activity Rate
Maintenance
100,000 MH
per MH
Supervision
125,000 DLH
per DLH