For many years, Sinclair Graphic Design has provided design and digital-printing services for indoor banners. The nylon banners, which come in a standard size, are used for a variety of purposes, including trade shows, sporting events, and other promotional activities. Three years ago, the company introduced a second printing and production service for outdoor banners that has become increasingly popular. The outdoor banners are a more complex product than the indoor banners, requiring weatherproof vinyl materials and a different printing process to improve the visibility of the text and graphics content. Moreover, outdoor banners are printed in smaller production runs because of less frequent orders; the setup of the printing equipment takes longer; and, since higher durability is needed to withstand the elements, more quality inspections are needed. Under the traditional costing approach, overhead costs are assigned to the products on the basis of direct labour-hours.

Despite the introduction of the new outdoor banners, profits have declined steadily over the past three years. Management is beginning to believe that the company's costing system may be at fault. Unit costs for materials and labour for the two products follow:

Indoor Outdoor Banners Banners Direct materials $9.50 $26.60 Direct labour ($21 per hour) $ 21 $ 63 Management estimates that the company will incur $720,000 in overhead costs during the current year and that 12,000 indoor banners and 2,400 outdoor banners will be produced and sold. Required: 1-a. Compute the predetermined overhead rate assuming that the company continues to apply overhead cost to products on the basis of direct labour-hours. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) - per direct labour hour 1-b. Using this rate and other data from the problem, determine the unit product cost of each product, (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) 2. Management is considering using ABC to apply overhead cost to products for external nancial reports. Some preliminary work has been done, and the data that have been collected are displayed below. Using these data, calculate the predetermined overhead rate for each activity cost pool identified below: (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Activity Measures Estimated Total Indoor Outdoor Overhead Costs Banners Banners Total. Order processing (orders received) $180,000 600 600 1,200 Print setup (number of batches) 60,000 960 240 1,200 Artwork and graphic design (labourhours) 420.000 8.400 8,400 16,800 Quality control (number of inspections) 60.000 480 480 960 Total. overhead cost $720,000 Order processing - per order w per setup Graphic design - per hour Quality control _ per inspection 3. Using the predetermined manufacturing overhead rates that you computed in (2) above, do the following: 6. Determine the total amount of manufacturing overhead cost that would be applied to each product using the ABC system. After you have computed these totals, determine the amount of overhead cost per unit of each product. Order processing Print set-up Graphics design Quality control Total overhead cost Number of units produced Overhead cost per unit b. Compute the unit product cost of each product. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)