Umanzor Corporation Uses Activity-Based Costing to Assign Overhead Costs to Products

question 29

Multiple Choice

Umanzor Corporation uses activity-based costing to assign overhead costs to products. Overhead costs have already been allocated to the company's three activity cost pools as follows: Processing, $42,700; Supervising, $26,900; and Other, $17,400. Processing costs are assigned to products using machine-hours (MHs) and Supervising costs are assigned to products using the number of batches. The costs in the Other activity cost pool are not assigned to products. Activity data appear below:
-What is the overhead cost assigned to Product S5 under activity-based costing?

• A)$58,968
• B)$43,500
• C)$18,830
• D)$40,138

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