Pomme Company uses activity-based costing to compute product costs for external reports. The company has three activity cost pools and applies overhead using predetermined overhead rates for each activity cost pool. Estimated costs and activities for the current year are presented below for the three activity centres:

Actual costs and activities for the current year were as follows:

Required:

a) Calculate the overhead rates per Activity Centre and how much total overhead was applied to products during the year? (6 marks)

b) By how much was overhead overapplied or underapplied? (Be sure to clearly label your answer as to whether the overhead was overapplied or underapplied for each activity centre as well as for the total.)(3 Marks)

Estimated Activity Overhead Expected Centre Costs Activity Batch Setups $20.400 1.200 Material Handling $52,800 2.400 General Factory $78,000 2.600Actual Activity Overhead Actual Centre Costs Activity Batch Setups $20,740 1.230 Material Handling $52.360 2.470 General Factory $77,590 2.680