Hasher Hardwood Floors Installs Oak and Other Hardwood Floors in Homes

question 8

Essay

Hasher Hardwood Floors installs oak and other hardwood floors in homes and businesses.The company uses an activity-based costing system for its overhead costs.The company has provided the following data concerning its annual overhead costs and its activity based costing system: The "Other" activity cost pool consists of the costs of idle capacity and organization-sustaining costs.
The amount of activity for the year is as follows: A "square" is a measure of area that is roughly equivalent to 1,000 square feet.
Required:
a.Prepare the first-stage allocation of overhead costs to the activity cost pools by filling in the table below: b.Compute the activity rates (i.e. ,cost per unit of activity)for the Installing Floors and Job Support activity cost pools by filling in the table below: c.Compute the overhead cost,according to the activity-based costing system,of a job that involves installing 2.8 squares.

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