9) Manton Corporation uses an activity based costing system to assign overhead costs
to products. In the first stage, two overhead costs-equipment expense and indirect
labor-are allocated to the three activity cost pools-Processing, Supervising, and
Other-based on resource consumption. Data to perform these allocations appear below:
In the second stage, Processing costs are assigned to products using machine-hours
(MHs) and Supervising costs are assigned to products using the number of batches. The
costs in the Other activity cost pool are not assigned to products. Activity data for the
company’s two products follow:
The activity rate for the Processing activity cost pool under activity-based costing is
closest to:
A.$2.16 per MH
B.$2.10 per MH
C.$4.10 per MH
D.$1.00 per MH
10) The desired profit according to the target costing calculations is:
A.$380,000