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Transcribed Image Text:Activity-Based Costing for a Service Company
Crosswinds Hospital plans to use activity-based costing to assign
hospital indirect costs to the care of patients. The hospital has
identified the following activities and activity rates for the hospital
indirect costs:
Activity
Activity Rate
$274
per day
$386
per image
$61
per physician order
$108
per test
$940 per operating room hour
The activity usage information associated with the two patients is
as follows:
Room and meals
Radiology
Pharmacy
Chemistry lab
Operating room
Number of days
Number of images
Number of physician orders
Number of tests
Abel Putin
LA
Abel Putin
atient.
3 days
5 images
7 orders
Number of operating room hours
a. Determine the activity cost associated with each patient.
LA
2 tests
Cheryl Umi
9 days
6 images
9 orders
4.5 hours
5 tests
6.5 hours
Cheryl Umit
p. Why is the total activity cost different for the two patients?
apparently had a different condition that
equired more extensive treatment. Thus, the activity cost to
is more than the activity cost of the other
Expert Solution

Step 1
Activity Based costing assigns overhead cost on the basis on the activity . An activity rate for each activity is determined by dividing the cost by the cost driver . The activity rate is then applied to usage of the product to allocate cost.
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