Activity Based Reporting: Manufacturing

Leidenheimer Corporation manufactures small airplane propellers. Sales for year 2 totaled $1,700,000. Information regarding resources for the month follows:

 

Resources Used

Resources Supplied

Parts management

$ 60,000

$ 70,000

Energy

100,000

100,000

Quality inspections

90,000

100,000

Long term labor

50,000

70,000

Short term labor

40,000

48,000

Setups

140,000

200,000

Materials

300,000

300,000

Depreciation

120,000

200,000

Marketing

140,000

150,000

Customer service

20,000

40,000

Administrative

100,000

140,000

In addition, Leidenheimer spent $50,000 on 50 engineering changes with a cost driver rate of $1,000 and $60,000 on eight outside contracts with a cost driver rate of $7,500.

Required

Management has requested that you do the following:

a. Prepare a traditional income statement.

b. Prepare an activity based income statement.

c. Write a short report explaining why the activity based income statement provides useful information to managers. Use the information from requirements (a) and (b) to develop examples for your report.