
Concept Introduction:
Activity based costing:
Activity based costing can be defined as the costing that assigns cost by assigning costs using factors like cost pools related to a particular overhead and then assign the costs to the products.
Manufacturing overheads:
Manufacturing overheads can be defined as the overheads incurred during the manufacturing process of the product. Only the plant or factory related expenses are termed as manufacturing overheads.
Requirement 1
Major costs related to making of boxes and how they are related to the volume of boxes produced
Requirement 2
To explain:
How Lakeside’ new customers differ from its previous customers
Requirement 3
Would the unit cost to produce a box for new customers be different from the unit costs to produce a box for previous customers?
Requirement 4
Could the Lakeside’s fate have been different if it had used ABC for determining the cost of its boxes?
Requirement 5
The information would have been available with ABC that might have been overlooked using a traditional volume-based costing method

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