Calculate the manufacturing overhead cost for each product

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Glass Mountain Vases is reviewing two vase product lines, Tall & Short. For these two products they allocate the costs using one single overhead rate based on estimated machine hours.

GMV doesn't believe the tall & short vases are being costed accurately and therefore decides to investigate switching to an Activity Based Costing System. The controller performs significant analysis and determines the following costs activities and cost drivers:

Activity               Activity Driver              Estimated activity cost          Volume of activity measure

Purchasing           Quantity bought                  225,000                           100,000kg

Machine set up     Number of set ups                 450,000                        200 set ups

Oven firing             Oven hours                    600,000                        25,000 hrs

The following data is used for GMV for November

                                                     Short                   Tall

Purchasing materials          2000kg                  4000kg

Machine set ups                22 set ups               5 set ups

Oven firings                       1000hrs                    1000hrs

Question 1: Calculate the budgeted indirect cost rate for the three cost pools

Question 2: Calculate the manufacturing overhead cost for each product

Question 3: Assuming the following additional costs, what is the total cost of the two products

                                Short                  Tall

Direct Materials    $50                    $65

Direct Labour        $75                      $33

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