Panamint Systems Corporation is estimating activity costs associated with producing disk drives, tapes drives, and wire drives. The indirect labor can be traced to five separate activity pools. The budgeted activity cost and activity base data by product are provided below.   Activity Cost   Activity Base Procurement $370,000   Number of purchase orders Scheduling 250,000   Number of production orders Materials handling 500,000   Number of moves Product development 730,000   Number of engineering changes Production 1,500,000   Machine hours   Number of Purchase Orders Number of Production Orders Number of Moves Number of Engineering Changes Machine Hours Number of Units Disk drives 4,000    300       1,400  10         2,000  2,000  Tape drives 4,000    150       800  10         8,000  4,000  Wire drives 12,000    800       4,000  25         10,000  2,500  The activity-based cost for each disk drive unit is a.$130.69 b.$279.57 c.$394.12 d.$92.25

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Panamint Systems Corporation is estimating activity costs associated with producing disk drives, tapes drives, and wire drives. The indirect labor can be traced to five separate activity pools. The budgeted activity cost and activity base data by product are provided below.

 
Activity Cost
 
Activity Base
Procurement $370,000   Number of purchase orders
Scheduling 250,000   Number of production orders
Materials handling 500,000   Number of moves
Product development 730,000   Number of engineering changes
Production 1,500,000   Machine hours
 
Number of
Purchase
Orders

Number of
Production
Orders

Number
of
Moves

Number of
Engineering
Changes


Machine
Hours

Number
of
Units
Disk drives 4,000    300       1,400  10         2,000  2,000 
Tape drives 4,000    150       800  10         8,000  4,000 
Wire drives 12,000    800       4,000  25         10,000  2,500 

The activity-based cost for each disk drive unit is

a.$130.69
b.$279.57
c.$394.12
d.$92.25
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