Nichols Inc. manufactures remote controls. Currently the company uses a

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rate for allocating manufacturing overhead. The plant manager is considering

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to ABC costing system and has asked the accounting department to identify the primary production activities and their cost drivers which are as follows:

Activities	Cost driver	Allocation Rate
Material handling	Number of parts	$2 per part
Assembly	Labor hours	$20 per hour
Inspection	Time at inspection station	$3 per minute

The current traditional cost method allocates overhead based on direct manufacturing labor hours using a rate of $200 per labor hour.

What are the indirect manufacturing costs per remote control assuming an

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method is used and a batch of 50 remote controls are produced? The batch requires 100 parts, 6 direct manufacturing labor hours, and 2.5 minutes of inspection time.

A.

$4.00 per remote control

B.

$327.50 per remote control

C.

$6.55 per remote control

D.

$24.00 per remote control