HiTech Products manufactures three types of remote-control devices: Economy, Standard, and Deluxe. The company, which uses activity-based costing, has identified five activities (and related cost drivers). Each activity, its budgeted cost, and related cost driver is identified below

Activity Cost

Material Handling $225,000

Material Insertion $2,475,000

Automated machinery $840,000

Finishing $170,000

Packaging $170,000

The following information pertains to the three product lines for next year:

Economy Standard Deluxe

Unit 2 be prod. 10,000 5,000 2,000

Order 2 ship 1,000 500 200

# parts per unit 10 15 25

Machine hr. per unit 1 3 5

Labor hrs. per unit 2 2 2

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What is HiTech's pool rate for the material-handling activity?

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b) What is HiTech's pool rate for the automated machinery activity?

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c) What is HiTech's pool rate for finishing activity?

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d) What is HiTech's pool rate for the packaging activity?

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e) Under an activity-based costing system, what is the total amount of overhead allocated to the Economy product line?

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f) Under an activity-based costing system, what is the total amount of overhead allocated to the Standard product line?

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Under an activity-based costing system, what is the total amount of overhead allocated to the Deluxe product line?

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Assume that HiTech instead decides to use a traditional volume-based costing system where total overhead costs ($3,880,000) are applied to all products on the basis of direct labor hours. Discuss the advantages or disadvantages of this choice (be specific, citing inferences from your ABC analyses above