Activity based costing, Cost Accounting

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As controller for Edmonton Cosmetic Hospital, you are looking into the possibility of utilizing Activity- Based-Costing to assign overhead costs to patient surgeries. As a first step, you have determined that overhead costs can be assigned to one of the following three activities:  

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Hospital services are classified into several broad categories, two of which are In-Patient Care and Out- Patient Care. The volume measures for In-Patient and Out-Patient Care are as follows:

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(A)  Under a traditional overhead allocation method 

i. What would be the Predetermined Overhead Rate based on direct labour hours. 

ii. What would be the allocation of overhead for In-Patient care and Out-patient care.

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(B)  Under ABC Costing

i. What is the allocation rate for each activity (Professional salaries, Building costs, and Risk management?

ii. What is the total allocation overhead for In-patient care and Outpatient care? Show calculations.


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