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In a job-order costing system, if costs are incurred to rework a job due to inadequate training of personnel, these costs would be

Breadline Corporation has the following information for the current year:   Selling price per unit $     10 Variable costs per unit $       6 Fixed costs $1,000 Required: Prepare a cost-volume-profit graph identifying the following items:   a. Total costs line b. Total fixed costs line c. Total variable costs line d. Total revenues line e. Break-even point in sales dollars f. Break-even point in units g. Profit area h. Loss area

Amber Company had the following information: ​ Activity Driver Unit Variable Cost Level of Activity Driver Units sold $         30    — Setups  1,500    50 Engineering hours     50 1,200       Other data:         Total fixed costs (traditional) $500,000       Total fixed costs (Activity-based costing) 200,000       Unit selling price               50   ​ How many units need to be sold to produce a before-tax profit of $100,000 using activity-based costing (ABC)? 

Income taxes are generally calculated as a percentage of income.

An actual overhead rate can be calculated

Colorado Corporation has the following sales forecast for the next quarter: ​ July, 4,000 units; August, 4,800 units; September, 5,600 units ​ Sales totaled 3,200 units in June. The June ending finished goods inventory was 800 units. End-of-month finished goods inventory levels are planned to be equal to 30 percent of the next month’s planned sales. ​ The planned ending inventory of finished goods for August is

Fantasmas Incorporated had the following information: ​ Activity Driver Unit Variable Cost Level of Activity Driver Units sold $         20    — Setups  1,200    60 Engineering hours     52 1,500       Other data:         Total fixed costs (traditional) $600,000       Total fixed costs (ABC) $360,000       Unit selling price      $         60   ​ Suppose Fantasmas could reduce setup costs by $300 per setup and could reduce the number of engineering hours needed to 1,400 hours. How many units must be sold to break even in this case?

Alana Company manufactures books. Manufacturing a book takes 10 units of A1 and 1 unit of A2. Scheduled production of books for the next two months is 1,000 and 1,200 units, respectively. Beginning inventory is 4,000 units of A1 and 30 units of A2. The ending inventory of A1 is planned to decrease 500 units in each of the next two months, and the A2 inventory is expected to increase 5 units in each of the next two months. ​ How many units of A2 are expected in the raw material inventory at the end of the second month?

Citizens Bank has two bank locations: Main and Suburbs. The central office provides check-processing services for the two banks. Information pertaining to the banks is as follows:     Check Processing Main Suburbs Budgeted fixed costs $100,000 – – Budgeted variable rate per hour $         20 – – Normal usage in hours        – 600 400         Actual fixed costs $107,500 – – Actual variable costs $  17,500 – – Actual usage in hours – 550 250 ​ Required: ​ a. Use the direct method to allocate the check-processing center costs to each bank to provide information for setting service charges. b. Use the direct method to allocate the check processing center costs to each bank for performance evaluation purposes. c. Determine the costs of the check-processing center NOT allocated to the two banks. Why were these costs not allocated to the operating units?

Compare and contrast static budgets, flexible budgets, and activity-based budgets.