St. Vincents, Inc., currently uses traditional costing procedures, applying $995,300 of overhead to products Beta and Zeta on the basis of direct labor hours. The company is considering a shift to activity-based costing and the creation of individual cost pools that will use direct labor hours (DLH), production setups (SU), and number of parts components (PC) as cost drivers. Data on the cost pools and respective driver volumes follow.

Product	Pool No.1 (Driver: DLH)				Pool No. 2 (Driver: SU)				Pool No. 3 (Driver: PC)
Beta		1,800				45				2,450
Zeta		3,250				60				760
Pool Cost	$	252,500			$	325,500			$	417,300

The overhead cost allocated to Beta by using traditional costing procedures would be:

Multiple Choice

• $354,760.

• $470,760.

• $558,760.

• $640,540.

• None of the answers is correct.