Question: Myan's Custom Framing has five indirect-cost pools (purchasing, material handling, machine maintenance, product inspection, and packaging). The company is in the process of bidding on

Myan's Custom Framing has five indirect-cost pools (purchasing, material handling, machine maintenance, product inspection, and packaging). The company is in the process of bidding on two jobs: Job 215, an order of 15 intricate personalized frames, and Job 325, an order of 6 standard personalized frames. The controller wants you to compare overhead allocated under the current simple job-costing system and a newly designed activity-based job-costing system. Total budgeted costs in each indirect-cost pool and the budgeted quantity of activity driver are as follows:

Budgeted Overhead

Activity Driver

Budgeted Quantity of Activity Driver

Purchasing

$35,000

Purchase orders processed

2,000

Material handling

43,750

Material moves

5,000

Machine maintenance

118,650

Machine-hours

10,500

Product inspection

9,450

Inspections

1,890

Packaging

19,950

Units produced

3,990

$226,800

Information related to Job 215 and Job 325 follows. Job 215 incurs more batch-level costs because it uses more types of materials that need to be purchased, moved, and inspected relative to Job 325.

Job 215

Job 325

Number of purchase orders

25

Material handling 10

Machine-hours

40

Number of inspections

9

Units produced

15

Required:

  1. The total overhead allocated to Job 215 under a simple costing system, where overhead is allocated based on machine-hours is .
  2. The total overhead allocated to Job 215 under an activity-based costing system using the appropriate activity drivers is .

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