Question: Digger Company uses Activity Based Costing and has already completed its first allocation of costs and summarized its annual cost and activity as follows: Activity

Digger Company uses Activity Based Costing and has already completed its first allocation of costs and
summarized its annual cost and activity as follows:
Activity Cost Pool
Estimated
Overhead
Cost Expected Activity
Trenching $250,000250,000 feet of trench
Removing soil $525,000125,000 cubic yards of soil
Drilling test holes $227,500700 test holes
Change orders $90,000150 change orders
Customer Service $87,5003,500 phone calls
Digger allocates Direct Costs as follows: Direct Materials $2.00 per feet of trench and Direct labor of
$1.00 per cubic yard of soil.
Required: Compute the activity rate for each activity cost pool as illustrated above:
Activity Cost Pool
Estimated
Overhead
Cost Expected Activity Activity Rate
Trenching...........................
Removing soil ....................
Drilling test holes...............
Changer orders..................
Customer Service...............
Required: Compute the Activity Based Cost for a job that requires 5,200 feet of trenching, 12,000 cubic
yards of soil, 30 test holes, 2 change orders and 35 customer service calls.
Activity Value Rate Amount
Direct Materials.................
Direct Labor.......................
ABC-Trenching...................
ABC-Removing soil ............
ABC-Drilling test holes.......
ABC-Changer orders ..........
ABC-Customer Service.......
TOTAL ACTIVITY BASED COST: ................

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