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21. Eaker Company uses activity-based costing to compute product costs for external reports. The company has three activity centers and applies overhead using predetermined overhead rates for each activity center. Estimated costs and activities for the current year are presented below for the three activity centers:
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Material handling
General factory

Actual costs and activities for the current year were as follows:

Required:
(a.) How much total overhead was applied to products during the year?
(b.) By how much was overhead overapplied or underapplied? (Be sure to clearly label your answer as to whether the overhead was overapplied or underapplied.)

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The solution explains how to calculate the applied overhead under activity based costing and determine if the overhead is underapplied or overapplied.

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21. Eaker Company uses activity-based costing to compute product costs for external reports. The company has three activity centers and applies overhead using predetermined overhead rates for each activity center. Estimated costs and activities for the current year are presented below for the three activity centers:

Actual costs and activities for the current year were as follows:

Required:
(a.) How much total overhead was applied to ...

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