Business, 25.11.2021 05:20 mshields1994

Whitman Enterprises uses a traditional-costing system to estimate quality-control costs for its Dragon product line. Costs are estimated at 40% of direct-labor cost, and direct labor totaled $876,000 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: Pool Rate Driver Quantities $8.60 per part 21.6 parts 0.28 per unit 131.00 per order 29,600 units 106 orders Required
A. Calculate the quarterly quality-control cost that is allocated to the Dragon product line under Whitman's traditional-costing system
B. Calculate the quarterly quality-control cost that is allocated to the Dragon product line if activity-based costing is used.
C. Does the traditional approach under- or overcost the product line? By what amount?
A. Quality-control cost
B. Quality-control cost
C. Undercost

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