In: Accounting
1. XYZ Sporting Corp. manufactures two types of products – Footwear and Apparel. The following table shows the estimated annual overhead cost of XYZ for the year of 2019 -
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 Production department:  | 
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 Indirect factory wages  | 
 $700,000  | 
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 Factory equipment depreciation  | 
 $250,000  | 
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 Factory utilities  | 
 $130,000  | 
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 Factory building lease  | 
 $80,000  | 
 $1,160,000  | 
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 General Administrative Department:  | 
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 Administrative wages & salaries  | 
 $500,000  | 
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 Office equipment depreciation  | 
 $10,000  | 
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 Administrative building lease  | 
 $60,000  | 
 $570,000  | 
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 Marketing department:  | 
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 Marketing wages & salaries  | 
 $350,000  | 
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 Selling expenses  | 
 $70,000  | 
 $420,000  | 
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 Total overhead cost  | 
 $2,150,000  | 
XYZ usually deploys a plantwide overhead rate based on machine hours. But the management of the company decided to implement an activity-based costing (ABC) system to allocate all $2,150,000 of its overhead costs to three cost pools –
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 Activity cost pool  | 
 Activity measures  | 
 Footwear  | 
 Apparel  | 
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 Customer orders  | 
 Number of customer orders  | 
 600 Orders  | 
 500 Orders  | 
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 Product design  | 
 Number of product designs  | 
 100 Designs  | 
 400 Designs  | 
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 Order size  | 
 Machine-hours  | 
 15,500 Machine Hours  | 
 9,500 Machine Hours  | 
The following table shows the distribution of resource consumption across the activity cost pools
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 Customer order  | 
 Product design  | 
 Order size  | 
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 Production Department:  | 
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 Indirect factory wages  | 
 20%  | 
 40%  | 
 40%  | 
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 Factory equipment depreciation  | 
 20%  | 
 0%  | 
 80%  | 
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 Factory utilities  | 
 0%  | 
 10%  | 
 90%  | 
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 Factory building lease  | 
 0%  | 
 0%  | 
 100%  | 
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 General Administrative Department:  | 
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 Administrative wages & salaries  | 
 15%  | 
 5%  | 
 80%  | 
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 Office equipment depreciation  | 
 30%  | 
 0%  | 
 70%  | 
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 Administrative building lease  | 
 0%  | 
 0%  | 
 100%  | 
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 Marketing Department:  | 
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 Marketing wages & salaries  | 
 22%  | 
 8%  | 
 70%  | 
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 Selling expenses  | 
 10%  | 
 0%  | 
 90%  |