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    [removed] Complete the attached excel spreadsheet.Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

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Estimated Drivers

Market Analysis

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Product Design

Product Development

Prototype Testing

Market Analysis
Product Design
Product Development
Prototype Testing

Market Analysis
Product Design
Product Development
Prototype Testing

Total

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Market Analysis
Product Design
Product Development
Prototype Testing
Total

R&D activities fall into four pools with the following annual costs:
Market Analysis 1,050,000
Product Design 2,350,000
Product Development 3,600,000
Prototype Testing 1,400,000
Activity analysis determines that the appropriate cost drivers and their usage for the four activities are:
Activities Cost Drivers Total
Hours of analysis 1500 hours
Number of designs 2500 designs
Number of products 90 products
Number of tests 500 tests
a) Compute the activity-based overhead rate for each pool. Use appropriate excel formulas to show your work
b) How much cost would be charged to an in-house manufacturing department that consumed 1,800 hours of
market analysis time, was provided 280 designs relating to 10 products and requested 92 engineering tests?
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c) How much cost would serve as the basis for for pricing an R&D bid with an outside company on a contract that
would consume 800 hours of analysis time, require 178 designs relating to 3 products, and result in 70 engineering tests?
d) What is the benefit to Acme Manufacturing of applying activity-based costing to its R&D activity for both
in-house and outside charging purposes?

Acme Manufacturing Company of Portland, Oregon has a Research & Development department that currently provides services to in-house manufacturing departments. Other manufacuturers have expressed interested in using Acme’s R&D department for special projects. Management has decided to conduct an activity-based costing system in order to determine charges for both outside and in-house users of the department’s services.

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