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:
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| 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 |
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| $226,800 |
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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.
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| Job 215 | Job 325 |
| Number of purchase orders | 25 |
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| Material handling | 10 | |
| Machine-hours | 40 |
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| Number of inspections | 9 |
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| Units produced | 15 |
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Required:
- The total overhead allocated to Job 215 under a simple costing system, where overhead is allocated based on machine-hours is .
- The total overhead allocated to Job 215 under an activity-based costing system using the appropriate activity drivers is .
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