Hails Corporation Manufactures Two Products: Product Q21F and Product H44W

question 156

Multiple Choice

Hails Corporation manufactures two products: Product Q21F and Product H44W. The company uses a plantwide overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. It is considering implementing an activity-based costing (ABC) system that allocates its manufacturing overhead to four cost pools. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Products Q21F and H44W. Using the plantwide overhead rate, the percentage of the total overhead cost that is allocated to Product H44W is closest to:

• A) 40.00%
• B) 50.00%
• C) 17.81%
• D) 21.30%

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