Saturday, April 11, 2015

McCaskey Corporation uses an activity-based costing system with the following three activity cost pools:

Activity Cost Pool
Total Activity
  Fabrication50,000   machine-hours
  Order processing625   orders
  OtherN/A

The Other activity cost pool is used to accumulate costs of idle capacity and organization-sustaining costs.

The company has provided the following data concerning its costs:

  Wages and salaries$433,000  
  Depreciation160,000  
  Occupancy169,000  
  Total
$762,000  

The distribution of resource consumption across activity cost pools is given below:

 
Activity Cost Pools
 
 FabricationOrder
Processing
OtherTotal
  Wages and salaries20%    70%    10%    100%    
  Depreciation10%    30%    60%    100%    
  Occupancy10%    70%    20%    100%    

The activity rate for the Fabrication activity cost pool is closest to:


$2.39 per machine-hour
$1.99 per machine-hour
$3.81 per machine-hour

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