Activity based costing & Traditional costing system

, about which it has provided the following data:

Kuechle Manufacturing Corporation has a traditional costing system in which it applies manufacturing overhead to its products using a predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours (DLHs). The company has two products, I49L and

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B26W

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149L
  Direct materials per unit 20.90    65.60  
  Direct labor per unit 21.30    56.30  
  Direct labor-hours per unit 0.70    2.40  
  Annual production 30,800    17,500  

 

The company’s estimated total manufacturing overhead for the year is $2,997,452 and the company’s estimated total direct labor-hours for the year is 63,560.

 

The company is considering using a variation of activity-based costing to determine its unit product costs for external reports. Data for this proposed activity-based costing system appear below:

 

and Activity Measures

(DLHs)

$

(setups)

 

(part types)

 

 

$

 

  Activities EstimatedOverhead Cost
  Supporting direct labor 444,920     
  Setting up machines 810,852     
  Parts admission 1,741,680     
  

Total 2,997,452     

 

   Activities149LB26WTotal   Supporting direct labor

   Setting up machines

   Parts admission

21,560     42,000     63,560    
827     3,310     4,137    
2,060     1,630     3,690    

 

a.

Required:

Determine the unit product cost of each of the company’s two products under the traditional costing system. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answers to 2 decimal places. Omit the “$” sign in your response.)

 

 

  

          149L            B26W
  Unit product cost
b.

Determine the unit product cost of each of the company’s two products under activity-based costing system. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answers to 2 decimal places. Omit the “$” sign in your response.)

 

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