Question: Hugle Corporation's activity-based costing system has three activity cost pools-Machining, Setting Up, and Other. The company's overhead costs have already been allocated to these cost

Hugle Corporation's activity-based costing system has three activity cost pools-Machining, Setting Up, and Other. The company's overhead costs have already been allocated to these cost pools as follows:

Machining $ 78,597
Setting up $ 103,246
Other $ 23,200

Costs in the Machining cost pool are assigned to products based on machine-hours (MHs) and costs in the Setting Up cost pool are assigned to products based on the number of batches. Costs in the Other cost pool are not assigned to products. The following table shows the machine-hours and number of batches associated with each of the company's two products:

MHs Batches
Product E8 2,290 1,440
Product V8 8,780 650
Total 11,070 2,090

Additional data concerning the company's products appears below:

Product E8 Product V8
Sales (total) $ 271,000 $ 253,000
Direct materials (total) $ 84,000 $ 92,700
Direct labor (total) $ 93,400 $ 60,300

Required:
a.

Calculate activity rates for each activity cost pool using activity-based costing. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

Activity Rate
Machining $___ per MH
Setting up $ ___ per batch

b.

Determine the amount of overhead cost that would be assigned to each product using activity-based costing. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

Product E8 Product V8
Machining _____________$ __________$
Setting up
Total _____________$ _________$

c.

Determine the product margins for each product using activity-based costing. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

Product Margin
Product E8 ________________$
Product V8 ________________$

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