Traditional costing system

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Acton Company has two products: A and B. The annual productionand sales of Product A is 800 units and of Product B is 500 units.The company has traditionally used direct labor-hours as the basisfor applying all manufacturing overhead to products. Product Arequires 0.3 direct labor hours per unit and Product B requires 0.2direct labor hours per unit. The total estimated overhead for nextperiod is $92,023. The company is considering switching to anactivity-based costing system for the purpose of computing unitproduct costs for external reports. The new activity-based costingsystem would have three overhead activity cost pools--Activity 1,Activity 2, and General Factory--with estimated overhead costs andexpected activity as follows:

Activity Cost Pool

Estimated Overhead Cost

Expected Activity

		Product A	Product B	Total
Activity 1	$14,487	500	600	1,100
Activity 2	$64,800	2,500	500	3,000
General Factory	$12,736	240	100	340

Total

$92,023

The overhead cost per unit of Product B under the traditional costing system is closest to:

$54.13
$7.49
$4.32
$2.63

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