Hasty Hardwood Floors Installs Oak and Other Hardwood Floors in Homes

question 15

Essay

Hasty 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 3.4 squares.

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