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Rosedale Co. incurs $160,000 of overhead costs in 3 depts. as follows:

Setup $10,000 40 setups per year
Machining $110,000 5,000 hrs per year
Packing 40,000 500 orders per year

Product one Product two
setups = 20 setups = 20
machining hrs = 1,000 machining hrs = 4,000
orders packed = 150 orders packed = 350

I would like help figuring out using ABC how much overhead is assigned to Product One each year.
Thanks.

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The solution explains how to calculate the amount of overhead to be assigned using activity based costing

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The first step is to calculate the activity rate.
Activity rate = Total cost/Total activity
Setup $10,000 40 setups per year

Activity rate = 10,000/40 = $250 per ...

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