All Wood Corporation manufactures dining chairs and tables. The following information is available:
All Wood is considering switching from one overhead rate based on labor hours to activity-based costing.
Instructions:
Perform the following analyses for these two components of overhead:
a. Compute total machine setups and inspection costs assigned to each product, using a single overhead rate.
b. Compute total machine setups and inspection costs assigned to each product, using activity-based costing.
c. Comment on your findings.