Riverdale Printing Company prints limited edition art books with production runs of 15,000 to 100,000. It has recently adopted an activity-based costing system to assign manufacturing overhead to products. The following data relate to one product, Art of Design, and the ABC cost pools:

Art of Design:

Annual production	40,000
Direct material per unit	$37
Direct labor per unit	$8

Cost pool	cost	cost driver
Materials ordering	$840,000	Number of purchase orders
Materials inspection	525,000	number of receiving reports
Equipment setup	2,500,000	Number of setups
Quality control	1,000,000	Number of inspections
Other	25,000,000	Direct labor cost
Total manufacturing overhead	$29,865,000

Annual activity information related to cost drivers:

Cost pool	all books	art of design
Materials ordering	120,000 orders	1,200
Materials inspection	2,100 recieving orders	315
Equipment setup	125 setups	1
Quality control	5,000 inspections	500
other	$12,500,000	$320,000

a.	Calculate the overhead rate per unit of activity for each of the five cost pools.

b.	Calculate the total overhead assigned to the production of the Art of Design. Round to two decimal places.

c.	Calculate the overhead cost per unit for the Art of Design.

d.	Calculate the total unit cost for the Art of Design.

e.

Suppose that Riverdale Printing allocates overhead by a traditional production volume-based method using direct labor dollars as the allocation base and one cost pool. Determine the overhead rate per direct labor dollar and the per unit overhead assigned to the Art of Design. Discuss the difference in cost allocations between the traditional method and the activity-based costing approach.