Bachrodt Corporation uses activity-based costing to compute product margins. Overhead costs
have already been allocated to the company’s three activity cost pools—Processing, Supervising,
and Other. The costs in those activity cost pools appear below:
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 appear below
Finally, sales and direct cost data are combined with Processing and Supervising costs to
determine product margins.
153) The activity rate for the Processing activity cost pool under activity-based costing is closest
to:
A) $2.10 per MH
B) $2.16 per MH
C) $3.60 per MH
D) $1.50 per MH