Pomme Company uses activity-based costing to compute product costs for external reports. The company has three activity cost pools and applies overhead using predetermined overhead rates for each activity cost pool. Estimated costs and activities for the current year are presented below for the three activity centres: activity centre         estimated overhead cost          expected activity Batch Setups                            20,400                                1,200 material handling                    52,800                                 2,400 General Factory                       78,000                                 2,600 Actual costs and activities for the current year were as follows: Activity Centre                Actual overhead costs          Actual Activity Batch Setups                               20,740                              1,230 Material Handling                       52,360                              2,470 General Factory                           77,590                              2,680 Required: a) Calculate the overhead rates per Activity Centre and how much total overhead was applied to products during the year? b) By how much was overhead overapplied or underapplied? (Be sure to clearly label your answer as to whether the overhead was overapplied or underapplied for each activity centre as well as for the total.

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Pomme Company uses activity-based costing to compute product costs for external reports. The company has three activity cost pools and applies overhead using predetermined overhead rates for each activity cost pool. Estimated costs and activities for the current year are presented below for the three activity centres:

activity centre         estimated overhead cost          expected activity

Batch Setups                            20,400                                1,200

material handling                    52,800                                 2,400

General Factory                       78,000                                 2,600

Actual costs and activities for the current year were as follows:

Activity Centre                Actual overhead costs          Actual Activity

Batch Setups                               20,740                              1,230

Material Handling                       52,360                              2,470

General Factory                           77,590                              2,680

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a) Calculate the overhead rates per Activity Centre and how much total overhead was applied to products during the year? 
b) By how much was overhead overapplied or underapplied? (Be sure to clearly label your answer as to whether the overhead was overapplied or underapplied for each activity centre as well as for the total.

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