80. National Inc. manufactures two models of CMD that can be used as cell phones, MPX,
and digital camcorders.
Model Annual Sales in Units
High F 10,000
Great P 16,000
National uses a volume-based costing system to apply factory overhead based on direct labor
dollars. The unit prime costs of each product were as follows:
High F Great P
Direct materials $38.00 $25.40
Direct labor $17.52 $13.14
Budget factory overhead:
Engineering and Design 2,409 engineering hours $404,712
Quality Control 12,848 inspection hours 269,808
Machinery 33,726 machine hours 539,616
Miscellaneous Overhead 26,400 direct labor hours 134,904
Total $1,349,040
National’s controller had been researching activity-based costing and decided to switch to it. A
special study determined National’s two products have the following budgeted activities:
High F Great P
Engineering and design hours 969 1,440
Quality control inspection hours 5,648 7,200
Machine hours 20,286 13,440
Labor hours 12,000 14,400
Using activity-based costing, applied miscellaneous overhead for the Great P model per unit is
(rounded to the nearest cent):