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Chapter 19, Problem 25E
Refer to Exercise E19-24. The president of Western suspects that her allocation of indirect costs could be giving misleading results, so she decides to develop an ABC system. She identifies three activities: documentation preparation, information technology support, and training. She figures that documentation costs are driven by the number of pages, information technology support costs are driven by the number of software applications used, and training costs are driven by the number of direct laborhours worked. Estimates of the costs and quantities of the allocation bases follow:
Compute the predetermined overhead allocation rate for each activity. Round to the nearest dollar.
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