Hickory Company manufactures two products—14,000 units of Product Y and 6,000 un

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Hickory Company manufactures two products—14,000 units of Product Y and 6,000 units of Product Z. The company uses a plantwide overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. It is considering implementing an activity-based costing (ABC) system that allocates all of its manufacturing overhead to four cost pools. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Products Y and Z: (The total estimated overhead cost may not agree with the sum of allocated overhead costs to each product.)

Hickory Company manufactures two products—14,000 units of Product Y and 6,000 units of Product Z. The company uses a plantwide overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. It is considering implementing an activity-based costing (ABC) system that allocates all of its manufacturing overhead to four cost pools. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Products Y and Z: (The total estimated overhead cost may not agree with the sum of allocated overhead costs to each product.)

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Acivity cost pool- Machinnig

activity measure-Machine hours

total machinning activity cost=$198,000

Total machine hours=10,000

activity rate for the Machining activity cost pool=Acitivity cost/total number of activity measure=$198,000/10,000

=$19.8

Machining activity cost pool=$19.8 per MH

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