cost pools--Processing, Setting Up, and Other. The company's overhead costs consist of equipment depreciation and indirect labor and are allocated to the cost pools in proportion to the activity cost pools' consumption of resources. Equipment depreciation totals $65,000 and indirect labor totals $3,500. Data concerning the distribution of resource consumption across activity cost pools appear below: Equipment depreciation Indirect labor Equipment depreciation Indirect labor Total Processing 0.65 0.30 Required: Assign overhead costs to activity cost pools using activity-based costing. Processing $ Activity Cost Pools Setting Up 0 $ Setting Up 0.10 0.20 0 S Other 0 SA S Other 0.25 0.50 S Total 0 0 0

cost pools--Processing, Setting Up, and Other. The company's overhead costs consist of equipment depreciation and indirect labor and are allocated to the cost pools in proportion to the activity cost pools' consumption of resources. Equipment depreciation totals $65,000 and indirect labor totals $3,500. Data concerning the distribution of resource consumption across activity cost pools appear below: Equipment depreciation Indirect labor Equipment depreciation Indirect labor Total Processing 0.65 0.30 Required: Assign overhead costs to activity cost pools using activity-based costing. Processing $ Activity Cost Pools Setting Up 0 $ Setting Up 0.10 0.20 0 S Other 0 SA S Other 0.25 0.50 S Total 0 0 0

Managerial Accounting

15th Edition

ISBN:9781337912020

Author:Carl Warren, Ph.d. Cma William B. Tayler

Publisher:Carl Warren, Ph.d. Cma William B. Tayler

Chapter4: Activity-based Costing

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 12E: Activity cost pools, activity rates, and product costs using activity-based costing Caldwell Home...

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