Question 2 International Steel Company has budgeted manufacturing overhead costs of $1,862,000. It has allocated overhead on a plant-wide basis to its two products (soft steel and hard steel) using machine hours, which are estimated to be 100,000 for the current year. The company has decided to experiment with activity-based costing and has created five activity cost pools and related activity cost drivers as follows: Estimated Activity Centre Material handling Purchase orders Product testing Machine set-up Machining Cost Driver Estimated Activity Number of moves Number of orders Number of tests Number of set-ups Machine hours Overhead $300,000 $104,000 $418,000 $320,000 $720,000 50,000 moves 1,600 orders 3,800 tests 5,000 set-ups 100,000 machine hours Each unit of the products requires the following Soft Steel Hard Steel $200 $60 Direct materials costs Direct labour costs Purchase orders Machine set-up Product testing Machining Material handling $300 $120 10 50 50