Assign overhead costs to services using traditional costing and ABC; compute overhead rates and unit costs; compare results.

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Activity Cost Pool

Employee training

Typing and secretarial

Computing

Facility rental Travel

$($b$)(2)$ Cost assignedIndividual $$238,250$

$($c$)$ Difference$-$Corporate $$28,250$

P$4-5$B Smith and Jones is a law firm that serves both individuals and corporations. A controversy has developed between the partners of the two service lines as to who is contributing the greater amount to the bottom line. The area of contention is the assignment of overhead. The individual partners argue for assigning overhead on the basis of $30\%$ of direct labor dollars, while the corporate partners argue for implementing activity$-$based costing. The partners agree to use next year's budgeted data for purposes of analysis and comparison. The following overhead data are collected to develop the comparison.

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