Question 6

Hickory Company manufactures two products14,000 units of Product Y and 6,000 units of Product Z. The company uses a plantwide overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. It is considering implementing an activity-based costing (ABC) system that allocates all $684,000 of its manufacturing overhead to four cost pools. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Products Y and Z:

Activity Cost Pool	Activity Measure	Estimated Overhead Cost		Expected Activity
Machining	Machine-hours	$	200,000	10,000	MHs
Machine setups	Number of setups	$	100,000	200	setups
Product design	Number of products	$	84,000	2	products
General factory	Direct labor-hours	$	300,000	12,000	DLHs

Activity Measure	Product Y	Product Z
Machine-hours	7,000	3,000
Number of setups	50	150
Number of products	1	1
Direct labor-hours	8,000	4,000

What is the activity rate for the Machining activity cost pool?

Group of answer choices

$20 per machine hour

$16.66 per machine hour

$57 per machine hour

$68.4 per machine hour

Question 7

Hickory Company manufactures two products14,000 units of Product Y and 6,000 units of Product Z. The company uses a plantwide overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. It is considering implementing an activity-based costing (ABC) system that allocates all $684,000 of its manufacturing overhead to four cost pools. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Products Y and Z:

Activity Cost Pool	Activity Measure	Estimated Overhead Cost		Expected Activity
Machining	Machine-hours	$	200,000	10,000	MHs
Machine setups	Number of setups	$	100,000	200	setups
Product design	Number of products	$	84,000	2	products
General factory	Direct labor-hours	$	300,000	12,000	DLHs

Activity Measure	Product Y	Product Z
Machine-hours	7,000	3,000
Number of setups	50	150
Number of products	1	1
Direct labor-hours	8,000	4,000

What is the activity rate for the Product Design activity cost pool?

Group of answer choices

$25 per direct labor hour

$42,000 per product

$84,000

$1 per product

Question 8

Hickory Company manufactures two products14,000 units of Product Y and 6,000 units of Product Z. The company uses a plantwide overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. It is considering implementing an activity-based costing (ABC) system that allocates all $684,000 of its manufacturing overhead to four cost pools. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Products Y and Z:

Activity Cost Pool	Activity Measure	Estimated Overhead Cost		Expected Activity
Machining	Machine-hours	$	200,000	10,000	MHs
Machine setups	Number of setups	$	100,000	200	setups
Product design	Number of products	$	84,000	2	products
General factory	Direct labor-hours	$	300,000	12,000	DLHs

Which of the following is a product-level activity?

Group of answer choices

General factory activity

Machine setups activity

machining activity

Product design activity

Question 9

Hickory Company manufactures two products14,000 units of Product Y and 6,000 units of Product Z. The company uses a plantwide overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. It is considering implementing an activity-based costing (ABC) system that allocates all $684,000 of its manufacturing overhead to four cost pools. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Products Y and Z:

Activity Cost Pool	Activity Measure	Estimated Overhead Cost		Expected Activity
Machining	Machine-hours	$	200,000	10,000	MHs
Machine setups	Number of setups	$	100,000	200	setups
Product design	Number of products	$	84,000	2	products
General factory	Direct labor-hours	$	300,000	12,000	DLHs

Activity Measure	Product Y	Product Z
Machine-hours	7,000	3,000
Number of setups	50	150
Number of products	1	1
Direct labor-hours	8,000	4,000

Using the ABC system, how much overhead cost would be assigned to Product Y?

Group of answer choices

$228,000

$277,000

$407,000

$456,000