Question

Hazelnut Corp. manufactures lawn ornaments. It currently has two product lines, the basic and the luxury. Hazelnut has a total of $175,765 in overhead.

The company has identified the following information about its overhead activity cost pools and the two product lines:

Activity Cost Pools	Cost Driver	Cost Assigned to Pool				Quantity/Amount Consumed by Basic	Quantity/Amount Consumed by Luxury
Materials handling	Number of moves		$	4,240		15 moves	65 moves
Quality control	Number of inspections		$	33,725		180 inspections	175 inspections
Machine maintenance	Number of machine hours		$	137,800		5,100 machine hours	5,500 machine hours

Required:
1. Suppose Hazelnut used a traditional costing system with machine hours as the cost driver. Determine the amount of overhead assigned to each product line. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)



2. Calculate the activity rates for each cost pool in Hazelnut’s ABC system.



3. Calculate the amount of overhead that Hazelnut will assign to the basic line if it uses an ABC system.



4. Determine the amount of overhead Hazelnut will assign to the luxury line if it uses an ABC system.



5. Compare the results for a traditional system with that of an ABC system. Which do you think is more accurate?

	Traditional System
	ABC System

Answer 1