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St. Vincent’s, Inc., currently uses traditional costing procedures, applying $800,000 of overhead to products Beta and Zeta on the basis of direct labor hours. The company is considering a shift to activity-based costing and the creation of individual cost pools that will use direct labor hours (DLH), production setups (SU), and number of parts components (PC) as cost drivers. Data on the cost pools and respective driver volumes follow.

-The overhead cost allocated to Beta by using traditional costing procedures would be:
A) $240,000.
B) $356,000.
C) $444,000.
D) $560,000.
E) None of the answers is correct.

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St. Vincent’s, Inc., currently uses traditional costing procedures, applying $800,000 of overhead to products Beta and Zeta on the basis of direct labor hours. The company is considering a shift to activity-based costing and the creation of individual cost pools that will use direct labor hours (DLH), production setups (SU), and number of parts components (PC) as cost drivers. Data on the cost pools and respective driver volumes follow.

-The overhead cost allocated to Beta by using traditional costing procedures would be:
A) $240,000. 
B) $356,000. 
C) $444,000. 
D) $560,000. 
E) None of the answers is correct.

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Traditional costing allocates overhead based on a single cost driver, often direct labor hours or machine hours. Without specific details on the cost driver and rates, the most likely answer based on typical allocation methods is $240,000.

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