Whitman Enterprises uses a traditional-costing system to estimate quality-control costs for its Dragon product line. Costs are estimated at 45% of direct-labor cost, and direct labor totaled $872,000 for the quarter just ended. Management is contemplating a change to activity-based costing, and has established three cost pools: incoming material inspection, in-process inspection, and final product certification. Number of parts, number of units, and number of orders have been selected as the respective cost drivers.

The following data show the pool rates that have been calculated by the company along with the quantity of driver units for the Dragon's:

Whitman Enterprises uses a traditional-costing system to estimate quality-control costs for its Dragon product line. Costs are estimated at 45% of direct-labor cost, and direct labor totaled $830,000 for the quarterjust ended. Management is contemplating a change to activity-based costing, and has established three cost pools: incoming material inspection. in-process inspection, and nal product oertication. Number of parts, number of units, and number of orders have been selected as the respective cost drivers. The following data show the pool rates that have been calculated by the company along with the quantityI of driver units for the Dragon's: Pool Rota Drivel: Quantities $ 0.70 per part: 21.2 parts 0.24 per unit. 29,200units 12?. 00 per order 102 orders Requlred: A. Calculate the quarterly quality-control cost that is allocated to the Dragon product line under Whitman's traditional-costing system. 3. Calculate the quarterly quality-control cost that is allocated to the Dragon product line if activityhbased costing is used. C. Does the traditional approach under or overcost the product line? By what amount? _ _