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McNeilMcNeil Pharmaceuticals manufacturers an over-the-counter allergy medication. The company sells both large commercial containers of 1,000 capsules to health care facilities and travel packs of 20 capsules to shops in airports, train stations, and hotels. The following information has been developed to determine if an activity-based costing system would be beneficial:

1.	Compute the predetermined overhead allocation rate for each activity.
2.	Use the predetermined overhead allocation rates to compute the activity-based costs per unit of the commercial containers and the travel packs. Round to two decimal places. (Hint: First compute the total activity-based costs allocated to each product line, and then compute the cost per unit.)
3.	McNeilMcNeil's original single plantwide overhead allocation rate costing system allocated indirect costs to products at $ 154.88$154.88 per machine hour. Compute the total indirect costs allocated to the commercial containers and to the travel packs under the original system. Then compute the indirect cost per unit for each product. Round to two decimal places.
4.	Compare the indirect activity-based costs per unit to the indirect costs per unit from the traditional system. How have the unit costs changed? Explain why the costs changed.

Estimated		Estimated Quantity
Activity	Indirect Costs	Allocation Base	of Allocation Base
Materials handling	$98,000	Number of kilos	24,500	kilos
Packaging	209,000	Number of machine hours	2,786	hours
Quality assurance	124,500	Number of samples	2,075	samples
Total indirect costs	$431,500

Actual production information includes the following:

	Commercial Containers		Travel Packs
Units produced	2,400	containers	56,000	packs
Weight in kilos	12,000		11,200
Machine hours	1,920		560
Number of samples	240		840

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