69) Pilkerton Enterprises makes a variety of products that it sells to other businesses. The
company’s activity-based costing system has four activity cost pools for assigning costs to
products and customers. Details concerning that ABC system are listed below:
Direct labor-hours (DLHs)
The cost of serving customers, $2,533.00 per customer, is the cost of serving a customer for one
year.
Christoforou Corporation buys only one of the company’s products which Pilkerton Enterprises
sells for $21.65 per unit. Last year Christoforou Corporation ordered a total of 1,300 units of this
product in 3 orders. To fill the orders, 10 batches were required. The direct materials cost is
$6.60 per unit and the direct labor cost is $2.75 per unit. Each unit requires 0.15 DLHs.
According to the ABC system, the total overhead cost for this customer this past year was closest
to:
A) $4,254.65
B) $1,721.65
C) $12,155.00
D) $16,409.65
Overhead Costs:
unit × 1,300 units)
Processing batches ($101.80 per batch × 10 batches)
1,018.00
Processing orders ($72.05 per order × 3 orders)
customer)
2,533.00
Total overhead cost
4,254.65