Hazelnut Corp. manufactures lawn ornaments. It currently has two product lines, the basic and the luxury....

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Hazelnut Corp. manufactures lawn ornaments. It currently has twoproduct lines, the basic and the luxury. Hazelnut has a total of$169,007 in overhead.

The company has identified the following information about itsoverhead activity cost pools and the two product lines:

Activity Cost PoolsCost DriverCost Assigned
to Pool
Quantity/Amount Consumed by
Basic
Quantity/Amount Consumed by
Luxury
Materials handlingNumber of moves$4,03225 moves47 moves
Quality controlNumber of inspections$33,375200 inspections175 inspections
Machine maintenanceNumber of machine hours$131,6005,700 machine hours3,700 machine hours

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Suppose Hazelnut used a traditional costing system withmachine hours as the cost driver. Determine the amount of overheadassigned to each product line. (Do not round intermediatecalculations and round your final answers to the nearest wholedollar amount.)



2. Calculate the activity rates for each cost poolin Hazelnut’s ABC system.



3. Calculate the amount of overhead that Hazelnutwill assign to the basic line if it uses an ABC system.



4. Determine the amount of overhead Hazelnut willassign to the luxury line if it uses an ABC system.



5. Compare the results for a traditional systemwith that of an ABC system. Which do you think is moreaccurate?

Traditional System
ABC System

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1. Computation of Amount of Overhead assigned to each product line
Overhead Recovery Rate =$17.98 $169007/(5700+3700)
Overhead assigned to Basic model ($17.98*5700) $1,02,030.00
Overhead assigned to Luxury model ($17.98*3700) $66,526.00
2. computation of Activity Rate
Cost Pool No. of Cost Driver Activity rate
Materials handling $4,032.00 72 $56.00
Quality control $33,375.00 375 $89.00
Machine maintenance $1,31,600.00 9400 $14.00
3 & 4..Overhead Assigned to Basic & Luxury Line
Basic Luxury
Activity Rate No. of cost driver OH Cost assigned No. of cost driver OH Cost assigned
Materials handling $56.00 25 $1,400.00 47 $2,632.00
Quality control $89.00 200 $17,800.00 175 $15,575.00
Machine maintenance $14.00 5700 $79,800.00 3700 $51,800.00
Total cost assigned $99,000.00 $70,007.00
5. ABC System is more accurate as compare with Traditional Costing

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