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Greenwood 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 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 PoolActivity MeasureEstimated Overhead CostExpected

ActivityMachiningMachine-hours$195,00010,000MHsMachine setupsNumber of setups$67,500150setupsProduction designNumber of products$79,0002productsGeneral factoryDirect labor-hours$245,00010,000DLHs

Activity MeasureProduct YProduct ZMachining7,5002,500Number of setups50100Number of products11Direct labor-hours7,5002,500