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Fantasia, a glass manufacturer, has identified the following activities (in '000) and cost drivers (in '000) relating to environmental costs: Cost drivers Preventing air pollution

Fantasia, a glass manufacturer, has identified the following activities (in '000) and cost drivers (in '000) relating to environmental costs:

Cost drivers

Preventing air pollution

981

Waste emissions kg

8

Preventing water pollution

969

Waste water output m3

759

General waste recycling & disposal

914

Kg of general waste

3.9

Hazardous waste recycling & disposal

995

Kg of recycled waste

2.3

Monitoring environmental impact

193

Internal audit hours

1.6

Environmental training

160

Training time (hours)

0.8

R&D related to environment

948

R&D hours

679

Fantasia makes two products - Products A and B.

Currently environmental costs are a part of Fantasia's general overhead pool and apportioned per unit. Fantasia produces 85,000 units of Product A and 12,000 units of Product B.

An ABC analysis of this environmental data has collected the following consumptions of environmental related activities for product A and B. Compute the difference between taking average environmental cost per unit and based on ABC systems for product A

Product A

Product B

Air pollution

6.96

1.04

Water pollution

622.38

136.62

General waste

3.315

0.585

Hazardous waste

1.863

0.437

Monitoring

1.392

0.208

Training

0.672

0.128

R&D

543.2

135.8

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