Vargus Corporation Has an Activity-Based Costing System with Three Activity

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Essay

Vargus Corporation has an activity-based costing system with three activity cost pools-Processing,Batch Setup,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 $72,000 and indirect labor totals $8,000.Data concerning the distribution of resource consumption across activity cost pools appear below:
$$\begin{array} { | l | c | c | c | } \hline & \text { Processing } & \text { Batch Setup } & \text { Other } \\\hline \text { Equipment depreciation } & 0.20 & 0.40 & 0.40 \\\hline \text { Indirect labor } & 0.20 & 0.30 & 0.50 \\\hline\end{array}$$
Required:
Assign overhead costs to activity cost pools using activity-based costing.

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