Conway Mountain Analysis Offers Agriculture and Environmental Assays

Conway Mountain Analysis offers agriculture and environmental assays.Its Soil Division performs testing on soil (S)as well as examines for the presence of pesticide residue (PR).Aggregated operating costs for the division are $1,050,000 based on a single overhead pool at a rate of $70 per testing hour.S testing uses 5,000 hours and PR uses 10,000 hours.The company is trying to determine whether a better costing structure can be established.As such the controller identifies the following costs.(1)Salaries and wages of laboratory techs are $600,000 based on 45% to S testing and 55% to PR testing.(2)Equipment related overhead like depreciation,maintenance,utilities,and insurance amount to $150,000,with a cost driver of number of test hours.(3)Setup costs are $120,000 assigned on 10,000 total setup hours.S testing requires 4,200 of the setup hours and PR testing requires 5,800 of the setup hours.(4)Costs of test designs amount to $180,000,based on the time required to design the tests.S testing requires 3,250 hours and P testing requires 1,750 hours.Required:
Classify (1)through (4)above as output-,batch-,product-,or facility-level costs.