Ollivier Corporation has an activity-based costing system with three activity cost pools-Processing, Supervising, and Other. In the first stage allocations, costs in the two overhead accounts, equipment expense and indirect labor, are allocated to the three activity cost pools based on resource consumption. Data used in the first stage allocations follow: 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:
-How much overhead cost is allocated to the Supervising activity cost pool under activity-based costing?
A)$13,200
B)$14,700
C)$8,100
D)$1,500

Question

Ollivier Corporation has an activity-based costing system with three activity cost pools-Processing, Supervising, and Other. In the first stage allocations, costs in the two overhead accounts, equipment expense and indirect labor, are allocated to the three activity cost pools based on resource consumption. Data used in the first stage allocations follow:   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: 
-How much overhead cost is allocated to the Supervising activity cost pool under activity-based costing?
A)$13,200 
B)$14,700 
C)$8,100 
D)$1,500

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Assign overhead costs to activity cost pools by applying the percentages in the Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activity Cost Pools table to the respective costs.For example,the second entry in the table is computed as follows: $33,000 F1F1F1S1F1F1F10 0.40 = $13,200.
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