Skaros Stairs Co. of Moore designs and builds factory-made premium wooden stairways for homes. The manufactured stairway components (spindles, risers, hangers, hand rails) permit installation of stairways of varying lengths and widths. All are of white oak wood. Budgeted manufacturing overhead costs for the year 2011 are as follows.

Overhead Cost Pools Amount

Overhead cost pools

Amounts

Purchasing

57,000

Handing materials

82,000

Production (cutting, milling, finishing)

210,000

Setting upt machines

85,000

Inspecting

90,000

Inventory control (raw materials and finished goods)

126,000

Utilities

180,000

Total budget overhead costs

830,000

Activity cost pools

Cost Drivers

Expected Use of Cost Drivers

Purchasing

Number of orders

600

Handing materials

Number of moves

8,000

Production (Cutting, milling, finishing)

Direct labor hours

100,000

Setting up machines

Number of setupt

1,250

Inspecting

Number of inspections

6,000

Inventory control (raw materials and finished goods)

Number of components

168,000

Utilities

Square feet occupied

90,000

David Hannon, sales manager, has received an order for 280 stairs from Community Builders, Inc., a large housing development contractor. At David’s request, Neal prepares cost estimates for producing components for 280 stairs so David can submit a contract price per stair to Community Builders. He accumulates the following data for the production of 280 stairways.

Direct materials

103,600

Direct labor

112,000

Machine hours

14,500

Number of purchase orders

60

Number of material moves

800

Number of machine setups

100

Number of inspections

450

Number of components

16,000

Number of square feet occupied

8,000

Requirement:

a. Compute the predetermined overhead rate using traditional costing with machine hours as the basis.

b. What is the manufacturing cost per stairway under traditional costing?

c. What is the manufacturing cost per stairway under the proposed activity-based costing?