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Exercise 3-11 Contrasting Activity-Based Costing and Conventional Product Costin

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Exercise 3-11 Contrasting Activity-Based Costing and Conventional Product Costing [LO3-2, LO3-3, LO3-4]

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Rusties Company recently implemented an activity-based costing system. At the beginning of the year, management made the following estimates of cost and activity in the company’s five activity cost pools:

   

Exercise 3-11 Part 1

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Exercise 3-11 Part 2

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Using the ABC data, determine the total amount of overhead cost assigned to each product.

Rusties Company recently implemented an activity-based costing system. At the beginning of the year, management made the following estimates of cost and activity in the company’s five activity cost pools:

Explanation / Answer

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Computation of total amount of Overead cost

Total Overhead Cost

$30,550

$14,603

$22,010

$26,592

Activity cost Pool Activity Rate Labor-related $9 per DLH Purchase orders $4 per order Product testing $10 per test Template etching $21 per template General factory $7 per MH