Surratt Corp is projecting activity costs associated with producing disk drives, tapes drives, and wire drives. Indirect labor can be traced to five separate activity pools. The budgeted activity cost and activity base data by product are provided below. What is the activity rate for the procurement activity cost pool? Activity Cost $ 370,000 Activity Base Procurement Scheduling Materials handling Product development 250,000 500,000 730,000 Number of purchase orders Number of production orders Number of moves Number of engineering changes Machine hours Production 1,500,000 Number Number of of Number Number of Machine Number Engineering Hours Changes Purchase Production of of Orders Orders Moves Units 2,000 Disk drives 4,000 300 1,400 10 2,000 Tape drives Wire drives 4,000 150 800 10 8,000 4,000 12,000 800 4,000 25 10,000 2,500

Surratt Corp is projecting activity costs associated with producing disk drives, tapes drives, and wire drives. Indirect labor can be traced to five separate activity pools. The budgeted activity cost and activity base data by product are provided below. What is the activity rate for the procurement activity cost pool? Activity Cost $ 370,000 Activity Base Procurement Scheduling Materials handling Product development 250,000 500,000 730,000 Number of purchase orders Number of production orders Number of moves Number of engineering changes Machine hours Production 1,500,000 Number Number of of Number Number of Machine Number Engineering Hours Changes Purchase Production of of Orders Orders Moves Units 2,000 Disk drives 4,000 300 1,400 10 2,000 Tape drives Wire drives 4,000 150 800 10 8,000 4,000 12,000 800 4,000 25 10,000 2,500

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Chapter4: Activity-based Costing

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