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Eaker Company Uses Activity-Based Costing to Compute Product Costs for External

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Eaker Company uses activity-based costing to compute product costs for external reports.The company has three activity cost pools and applies overhead using predetermined overhead rates for each activity cost pool.Estimated costs and activities for the current year are presented below for the three activity centres:
 Activity Centre  Estimated Overhend Cost  Expected Activity  Batch setups $20,4001,200 Material handling 52,8002,400 General factory 78,0002,600\begin{array} { | l | r | r | } \hline \text { Activity Centre } & \text { Estimated Overhend Cost } & \text { Expected Activity } \\\hline \text { Batch setups } & \$ 20,400 & 1,200 \\\hline \text { Material handling } & 52,800 & 2,400 \\\hline \text { General factory } & 78,000 & 2,600 \\\hline\end{array}
Actual costs and activities for the current year were as follows:
 Activity Centre  Actual Overhead Costs  Expected Activity  Batch setups $20,7401,230 Material hardling 52,3602,470 General factary 77,5902,680\begin{array} { | l | r | r | } \hline \text { Activity Centre } & \text { Actual Overhead Costs } & \text { Expected Activity } \\\hline \text { Batch setups } & \$ 20,740 & 1,230 \\\hline \text { Material hardling } & 52,360 & 2,470 \\\hline \text { General factary } & 77,590 & 2,680 \\\hline\end{array}
Required:
a)How much total overhead was applied to products during the year?
b)By how much was overhead overapplied or underapplied? (Be sure to clearly label your Answer as to whether the overhead was overapplied or underapplied for each activity centre as well as for the total.)

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