Richard Miller has been studying his departments profitability reports for the past six months. He...

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Richard Miller has been studying his departments profitability reports for the past six months. He has just completed a managerial accounting course and is beginning to question the companys approach to allocating overhead to products based on machine hours. The current department overhead budget of $912,460 is based on 45,623 machine hours. In an initial analysis of overhead costs, Richard has identified the following activity cost pools.

Cost Pool

Expected Cost

Expected Activities

Product assembly

$ 592,000 37,000 machine hours

Machine setup and calibration

229,600 4,100 setups

Product inspection

47,160 1,310 batches

Raw materials storage

43,700 230,000 pounds
$ 912,460

Richard Miller is taking the next step in his exploration of activity-based costing and wants to examine the overhead costs that would be allocated to two of the departments four products. He has gathered the following budget information about each product.

Driver Usage

Component 3F5

Component T76

Machine hours

920 11,400

Setups

40 23

Batches

15 15

Pounds of raw materials

10,000 10,000

(a) Calculate the total overhead allocated to each component under the traditional method using machine hours as the overhead application base.

Component 3F5

Component T76

Total Overhead allocated

$enter a dollar amount $enter a dollar amount

(b) Calculate the total overhead allocated to each component under activity-based costing. (Round overhead rates to 2 decimal places, e.g. 5.27 and round final answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 5,275.)

Component 3F5

Component T76

Total Overhead allocated

$enter a dollar amount rounded to 0 decimal places $enter a dollar amount rounded to 0 decimal places

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