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Hakara Company has been using direct labor costs as the basis for assigning overhead to its many products. Under this allocation system product A has been assigned overhead of $31.58 per unit while product B has been assigned $8.69 per unit. Management feels that an ABC system will provide a more accurate allocation of the overhead costs and has collected the following cost pool and cost driver information:
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The following cost information pertains to the production of A and B, just two of its many products:
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1. Use activity-based costing to determine a unit cost for each product.
2. Comment on Managements belief that the ABC system will generate an overhead allocation that is more accurate than the volume based system currently in use.