Whitman Printing has contracts to complete weekly supplements required by forty-six customers. For the year 20X5, manufacturing overhead cost estimates total $840,000 for an annual production capacity of 12 million pages. For 2010, Whitman Printing decided to evaluate the use of additional cost pools. After analyzing manufacturing overhead costs, it was determined that the number of design changes, setups, and inspections are the primary manufacturing overhead cost drivers. The following information was gathered during the analysis:

Cost Pool Manufacturing overhead costs Activity
Design changes $120,000 200 design changes
Setups 640,000 4,000 setups
Inspections    80,000 16,000 inspections
Total manufacturing overhead costs $840,000

During 2010, two customers, Money Managers and Hospital Systems, are expected to use the following printing services:

Activity Money Managers Hospital Systems
Pages 60,000 76,000
Design changes 10 2
Setups 20 10
Inspections 30 38

When costs are assigned using the single cost driver, number of pages printed, then Hospital Systems will ___?

a. contribute too little to profits, and Wallace Printing will not want to accept additional work from the company.
b. Will likely seek to do business with competitors
c. Is grossly under billed for the job, while other jobs will be unfairly over billed.
d. Is fairly billed because resources are allocated uniformly to all jobs.

a. contribute too little to profits, and Wallace Printing will not want to accept additional work from the company.

Explanation:

For reaching any conclusion first we have to determine the cost assigned by using the single cost driver which is shown below:

= Rate × Pages printed

= ($840,000 ÷ 12,000,000) × 76,000

= $5,320

And  Cost assigned using ABC  is

= (120,000 ÷ 200) × 2 + (640,000 ÷ 4000) × 10 + (80,000 ÷ 16000) × 38

= $2,990

By this above calculation, the first option is chosen as the cost are high as compared to the ABC while on the other hand the profit would be NIL

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.

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1. the sum of all activities involved in getting high-quality products into the marketplace

2.operations

3. the principle of looking at the supply chain as a whole in order to improve the overall flow through the system.

4. produced; performed

5. activities producing tangible products, such as radios, newspapers, buses, and textbooks.

6. activities producing intangible and tangible products, such as entertainment, transportation, and education.

7.   customer focus

8. analyzing a competitor's products to identify desirable improvements

9. the systematic direction and control of the processes that transform resources into finished projects that create value for and provide benefits to consumers.

10. operation management.

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