Choice Hotels Sales, Production, and Cost Information					Overhead Costs
Room Type	Standard Guest Room	Junior Suite	Presidential Suite		Type	Cost
Volume	150	110	25		Depreciation	$3,200,000
Price	$140,000	$240,000	$1,050,000		Maintenance	$1,800,000
Unit costs					Purchasing	$320,000
Direct materials	$30,000	$92,000	$310,000		Inspection	$850,000
Direct labor	$54,000	$85,000	$640,000		Indirect materials	$490,000
Manufacturing	$30,000	$30,000	$30,000		Supervision	$1,700,000
overhead					Supplies	$190,000
Total unit cost	$114,000	$207,000	$980,000		Total manufacturing overhead cost	$8,550,000
Unit gross profit	$26,000	$33,000	$70,000		Note: Manufacturing overhead costs are fixed. They do not vary with the volume of manufacturing activity.
Direct labor hours	1,200	1,300	5,940
Rate per hour	$45.00	$65.38	$107.74

1. The cost-allocation system Choice Hotels has been using allocates over 90 percent of overhead costs to the Standard Guest Room and the Junior Suite, because over 90 percent of the models produced were one of these two models. How much overhead was allocated to each of the three models last year? Discuss why this might not be an accurate way to assign overhead costs to products.

2. How would the use of more than one cost pool improve Choice Hotels cost allocation?

3. Choice Hotels' production manager proposes allocating overhead by direct labor hours instead, since the different models require different amounts of labor. How much overhead would be allocated to each guest room (per unit and in total) using this method? Show all supporting calculations.