Skath Industries manufactures a variety of custom products. The company has traditionally used a plantwide manufacturing overhead rate based on machine hours to allocate manufacturing overhead to its products. The company estimates that it will incur $1,680,000 in total manufacturing overhead costs in the upcoming year and will use 14,000 machine hours. Click the icon to view the additional information about the hazardous waste disposal fees.) Expected usage and costs for manufacturing overhead activities for the upcoming year are as follows: B (Click the icon to view the expected usage and costs.) During the year, Job 356 is started and completed. Usage for this job follows: B (Click the icon to view the usage for Job 356.) Read the requirements. Requirement 1. Calculate the cost of Job 356 using the traditional plantwide manufacturing overhead rate based on machine hours. Begin by calculating the plantwide overhead rate. First identify the formula used to compute the plantwide overhead rate, then compute the rate. (Abbreviations used: MOH = manufacturing overhead; mfg. = manufacturing) Total estimated manufacturing costs Estimated total machine hours = Plantwide mfg. overhead rate Data Table i Data Table Description of Cost Pool Estimated Cost Cost Driver Machine maintenance costs ......S 700,000 Number of machine hours Engineering change orders S 360,000 Number of change orders S Hazardous waste disposal... 620,000 Pounds of hazardous materials generated S 1.680.000 Total overhead cost............ Estimated Activity for this Year 14,000 6,000 280 pounds of direct materials at $40 per pound 20 direct labor hours used at $35 per labor hour 70 machine hours used 9 change orders 20 pounds of hazardous waste generated 2,000 Check Answer Print an X More Info Up to this point, hazardous waste disposal fees have been absorbed into the plantwide manufacturing overhead rate and allocated to all products as part of the manufacturing overhead process. Recently, the company has been experiencing significantly increased waste disposal fees for hazardous waste generated by certain products, and as a result, profit margins on all products have been negatively impacted. Company management wants to implement an activity-based costing system so that managers know the cost of each product, including its hazardous waste disposal costs. Print Done 1. 2. Calculate the cost of Job 356 using the traditional plantwide manufacturing overhead rate based on machine hours. Calculate the cost of Job 356 using activity-based costing. If you were a manager, which cost estimate would provide you more useful information? How might you use this information? 3