Laura is the controller for Wildhorse Inc., a factory that creates unique dog chew toys. Until...

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Laura is the controller for Wildhorse Inc., a factory that creates unique dog chew toys. Until now, Wildhorse has been using a single plant-wide rate of $10.60 per direct labor hour to allocate Manufacturing Overhead (MOH) costs. Laura has been debating a switch to activity-based costing and has derived the following activity-based rates: $19.00 per machine hour $12.00 per direct labor hour $6.00 per inspection hour A recent production run used 76 machine hours, 195 direct labor hours, and 8 inspection hours. How much MOH would be allocated using the newly derived activity-based rates? Laura is the controller for Wildhorse Inc., a factory that creates unique dog chew toys. Until now, Wildhorse has been using a single plant-wide rate of $10.60 per direct labor hour to allocate Manufacturing Overhead (MOH) costs. Laura has been debating a switch to activity-based costing and has derived the following activity-based rates: $19.00 per machine hour $12.00 per direct labor hour $6.00 per inspection hour A recent production run used 76 machine hours, 195 direct labor hours, and 8 inspection hours. How much MOH would be allocated using the newly derived activity-based rates?

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