hotels. The following information has been developed to determine if an activity$-$based costing system would be beneficial:

$($Click the icon to view the information.$)$ packs under the original system. Then compute the indirect cost per unit for each product. Round to two decimal places.

Select the formula, and then enter the amounts to compute the indirect cost per unit for each product. $($Abbreviation used: mfg$.=$ manufacturing. Round dollar amounts to two decimal places.$)$

Data table

$\backslash$table$[[$Activity$,\backslash$table$[[$Estimated$],[$Indirect Costs$]],$Allocation Base,$\backslash$table$[[$Estimated Quantity of$],[$Allocation Base$]]],[$Materials handling,$96,00,$Number of kilos,$24,000$ kilos$],[$Packaging$,210,00,0$ Number of machine hours,$3,000$ hours$],[$Quality assurance,$114,00,$Number of samples,$1,900$ samples$],[$Total indirect costs,$420,00,,]]$

Actual production information includes the following:

$\backslash$table$[[,$Commercial Containers,Travel Packs$],[$Units produced,$3,200$ containers,$51,000$ packs$],[$Weight in kilos,$11,200,5,100],[$Machine hours,$2,240,510],[$Number of samples,$320,765]]$

Requirements

Corbertt's original single plantwide overhead allocation rate costing system allocated indirect costs to products at $$140\mathrm{.}00$ per machine hour. Compute the total indirect costs allocated to the commercial containers and to the travel packs under the original system. Then compute the indirect cost per unit for each product. Round to two decimal places.

Compute the predetermined overhead allocation rate for each activity.

Use the predetermined overhead allocation rates to compute the activity$-$based costs per unit of the commercial containers and the travel packs. Round to two decimal places. $($Hint: First compute the total activity$-$based costs allocated to each product line, and then compute the cost per unit.$)$

Compare the indirect activity$-$based costs per unit to the indirect costs per unit from the traditional system. How have the unit costs changed? Explain why the costs changed.