Hickory Company manufactures two products—15,000 units of Product Y and 7,000 units of Product Z. The company uses a plantwide overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. It is considering implementing an activity-based costing (ABC) system that allocates all $729,600 of its manufacturing overhead to four cost pools. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Products Y and Z:   Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Estimated Overhead Cost Expected Activity Machining Machine-hours $ 227,700 11,000 MHs Machine setups Number of setups $ 153,900 270 setups Product design Number of products $ 91,000 2 products General factory Direct labor-hours $ 257,000 13,200 DLHs   Activity Measure Product Y Product Z Machine-hours 7,700 3,300 Number of setups 60 210 Number of products 1 1 Direct labor-hours 8,700 4,500 1.  Which of the four activities is a product-level activity?   multiple choice a)Product design b)Machine setups c)General factory d)Machining   2.  Using the ABC system, how much total manufacturing overhead cost would be assigned to Product Y? (Round all intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)   3. Using the ABC system, how much total manufacturing overhead cost would be assigned to Product Z? 4. Using the plantwide overhead rate, what percentage of the total overhead cost is allocated to Product Y and Product Z? (Round your "Percentage" answers to 2 decimal place.)

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Hickory Company manufactures two products—15,000 units of Product Y and 7,000 units of Product Z. The company uses a plantwide overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. It is considering implementing an activity-based costing (ABC) system that allocates all $729,600 of its manufacturing overhead to four cost pools. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Products Y and Z:

 

Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Estimated Overhead Cost Expected Activity
Machining Machine-hours $ 227,700 11,000 MHs
Machine setups Number of setups $ 153,900 270 setups
Product design Number of products $ 91,000 2 products
General factory Direct labor-hours $ 257,000 13,200 DLHs

 

Activity Measure Product Y Product Z
Machine-hours 7,700 3,300
Number of setups 60 210
Number of products 1 1
Direct labor-hours 8,700 4,500

1. 

Which of the four activities is a product-level activity?

 

multiple choice

a)Product design

b)Machine setups

c)General factory
d)Machining
 
2.  Using the ABC system, how much total manufacturing overhead cost would be assigned to Product Y? (Round all intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)
 
3. Using the ABC system, how much total manufacturing overhead cost would be assigned to Product Z?

4. Using the plantwide overhead rate, what percentage of the total overhead cost is allocated to Product Y and Product Z? (Round your "Percentage" answers to 2 decimal place.)

 

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