a. Calculate the total cost of each Product H using:
i. Absorption costing using a business-wide overhead recovery rate
ii. Absorption costing using departmental overhead rates
iii. Activity-based costing
b. Explain the principles underlying the basis of calculation of each of the three above-mentioned methods and the most likely reasons for any similarity or difference between the results in applying the three methods in this case.
c. Explain the overhead allocation problem, particularly with regard to the issues raised by Cooper and Kaplan in their article “How cost accounting distorts product costs”