Cabell Company Manufactures Two Products, Product C and Product D

question 14

Essay

Cabell Company manufactures two products, Product C and Product D. The company estimated it would incur $99,590 in manufacturing overhead costs during the current period. Overhead currently is applied to the products on the basis of direct labor-hours. Data concerning the current period's operations appear below:
Required:
a. Compute the predetermined overhead rate under the current method, and determine the unit product cost of each product for the current year.
b. The company is considering using an activity-based costing system to compute unit product costs for external financial reports instead of its traditional system based on direct labor-hours. The activity-based costing system would use three activity cost pools. Data relating to these activities for the current period are given below:
Determine the unit product cost of each product for the current period using the activity-based costing approach.

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