Overhead cost per unit
Rocky (4 672 644,11/826) 5 656,95
BMY (11 140 428,89/2040) 5 460,99
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, (b) Explain a difference between the traditional costing and activity-based costing
methods.
∙ Non-manufacturing (ie customer support costs), as well as manufacturing costs, may be
assigned to products for decision-making purposes (not for GAAP inventory valuation).
∙ A number of overhead activity cost pools are used, each of which is allocated to products
and other cost objects using ABC’s own unique measure of activity or driver.
∙ The allocation bases differ from those used in the traditional costing method.
∙ The activity rates may be based on the level of activity at normal capacity rather than on
the budgeted level of activity.
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