Question - Larkspur Corp. manufactures bird feeders. It currently has two product lines, the standard and the deluxe. Larkspur has a total of $137,250 in overhead.
The company has identified the following information about its overhead activity pools and the two product lines:
Activity Pools
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Cost Driver
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Cost Assigned to Pool
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Quantity Consumed by Standard
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Quantity Consumed by Deluxe
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Material handling
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Number of moves
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$3,500
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20 moves
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50 moves
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Quality control
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Number of inspections
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$33,750
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250 inspections
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125 inspections
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Machine maintenance
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Number of machine hrs
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$100,000
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5,000 machine hours
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5,000 machine hours
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Suppose Larkspur used a traditional costing system with machine hours as the cost driver. Determine the amount of overhead assigned to each product line.