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    Oct 8, 2014, 08:14 PM
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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 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 $ 213,400 11,000 MHs
    Machine setups Number of setups $ 61,600 140 setups
    Production design Number of products $ 78,000 2 products
    General factory Direct labor-hours $ 244,000 13,200 DLHs


    Activity Measure Product Y Product Z
    Machine-hours 6,400 4,600
    Number of setups 60 80
    Number of products 1 1
    Direct labor-hours 7,400 5,800



    Question : Using the ABC system, how much total manufacturing overhead cost would be assigned to Product Y?(Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and final answers to the nearest dollar amount.)


    I got $326,312 by adding results of multiplying 19.40 x 6,400 + 60 x 440 + 39,000 + 7,400 x 18.48 but this was marked wrong and the activity rates I got were marked right prior.
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    Oct 9, 2014, 04:05 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by sagnik2422 View Post
    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 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 $ 213,400 11,000 MHs
    Machine setups Number of setups $ 61,600 140 setups
    Production design Number of products $ 78,000 2 products
    General factory Direct labor-hours $ 244,000 13,200 DLHs


    Activity Measure Product Y Product Z
    Machine-hours 6,400 4,600
    Number of setups 60 80
    Number of products 1 1
    Direct labor-hours 7,400 5,800



    Question : Using the ABC system, how much total manufacturing overhead cost would be assigned to Product Y?(Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and final answers to the nearest dollar amount.)


    I got $326,312 by adding results of multiplying 19.40 x 6,400 + 60 x 440 + 39,000 + 7,400 x 18.48 but this was marked wrong and the activity rates I got were marked right prior.
    how wrong were you? If you used a spreadsheet and referenced a cell instead of a number entered in a cell ie; 18.48 or 18.484848^ you would get a different answer I did the problem and got the same answer you did using rounded amounts

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