Bartow Corporation uses an activity-based costing system to assign overhead costs to products. In the first stage, two overhead costs-equipment expense and indirect labor-are allocated to the three activity cost pools-Processing, Supervising, and Other-based on resource consumption. Data to perform these allocations appear below:Overhead costs: Equipment expense$29,000Indirect labor$8,000??Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activity Cost Pools: Activity Cost Pools ProcessingSupervisingOtherEquipment expense0.200.600.20Indirect labor0.500.300.20In the second stage, Processing costs are assigned to products using machine-hours (MHs) and Supervising costs are assigned to products using the number of batches. The costs in the Other activity cost pool are not assigned to
products. Activity data for the company's two products follow:Activity: MHs (Processing)Batches (Supervising)Product H36,700700Product O53,3001,300Total10,0002,000The activity rate for the Processing activity cost pool under activity-based costing is closest to:
A. $0.58 per MH
B. $3.70 per MH
C. $0.98 per MH
D. $5.71 per MH
Answer: C
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