Allocating costs with different cost drivers Julian Shoes Corporation produces three brands of shoes, Brisk, Pro, and Runner. Relevant information about Julian’s overhead activities, their respective costs, and their cost drivers follows.

Required

a. Julian currently allocates all overhead costs based on labor hours. The company produced the following numbers of pairs of shoes during the prior year.
Determine the overhead cost per pair of shoes for each brand.

b. Determine the overhead cost per pair of shoes for each brand, assuming that the volume-based allocation system described in Requirement a is replaced with an activity-based costing system.

c. Explain why the per pair overhead costs determined in Requirements a and b differ.