Rocky Mountain Corporation makes two types of hiking bootsXactive and Pathbreaker. Data concerning these two...

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Rocky Mountain Corporation makes two types of hiking bootsXactive and Pathbreaker. Data concerning these two product lines appear below:

Xactive Pathbreaker
Direct materials per unit $ 65.80 $ 52.00
Direct labor cost per unit $ 19.20 $ 14.00
Direct labor-hours per unit 1.4 DLHs 1 DLHs
Estimated annual production and sales 35,000 units 85,000 units

The company has a conventional costing system in which manufacturing overhead is applied to units based on direct labor-hours. Data concerning manufacturing overhead and direct labor-hours for the upcoming year appear below:

Estimated total manufacturing overhead $2,814,000
Estimated total direct labor-hours 134,000 DLHs

Required:
1-a. Compute the predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. (Round the intermediate calculations and final answer to two decimal places.)

1-b. Using the predetermined overhead rate and other data from the problem, determine the unit product cost of each product. (Round the intermediate calculations and final answer to two decimal places.)

2.

The company is considering replacing its conventional costing system with an activity-based costing system that would assign its manufacturing overhead to the following four activity cost pools:

Estimated Overhead Cost Expected Activity

Activity Cost Pools and Activity Measures Xactive Pathbreaker Total
Supporting direct labor (direct labor-hours) $ 1,038,500 49,000 85,000 134,000
Batch setups (setups) 1,100,000 300 200 500
Product sustaining (number of products) 582,500 1 1 2
General factory (machine-hours) 93,000 3,500 8,500 12,000

Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 2,814,000

Determine the activity rate for each of the four activity cost pools. (Round your final answers to 2 decimal places.)

3.

Using the activity rates and other data from the problem, determine the unit product cost of each product. (Round the intermediate calculations and final answer to two decimal places.)

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