
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
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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