Hartley company produces two products, flower and planter. flower is a high-volume item totaling 20,000 units annually. planter is a low-volume item totaling only 6,000 units per year. flower requires one hour of direct labor for completion, while each unit of planter requires 2 hours. therefore, total annual direct labor hours are 32,000 (20,000 + 12,000). expected annual manufacturing overhead costs are $960,000. hartley uses a traditional costing system and assigns overhead based on direct labor hours. each unit of planter would be assigned overhead of . $32 b. $53c. need more information to compute d. $26

Activity-based costing (abc) is not truly a cost collection mechanism as much as it is an inventory valuation method. the main purpose for implementing an activity-based cost system is to try to overcome some of the cost distortions that occur in traditional costing from product differences when there are variations in size and complexity. however, one of the disadvantages of utilizing abc is that the additional information gathering necessary to implement costing with that level of detail might be beyond the reach of some companies with resource or financial constraints. with this in mind, what kinds of industries or companies do you think would benefit most from using activity-based costing and why? in designing or modifying an accounting system to capture appropriate costs for abc, what considerations do you think would need to be made?