Acc561 w4 team Costing and Decision Making

new 100 words minimum with reference, only do letter B due in 6 hours

(a)  Compute the activity-based overhead rate for each activity cost pool.

(b)  How much cost would be charged to an in-house manufacturing department that consumed 1,800 hours of market analysis time, was provided 280 designs relating to 10 products, and requested 92 engineering tests?

(c)  How much cost would serve as the basis for pricing an R&D bid with an outside company on a contract that would consume 800 hours of analysis time, require 178 designs relating to 3 products, and result in 70 engineering tests?

(d)  What is the benefit to Ideal Manufacturing of applying activity-based costing to its R&D activity for both in-house and outside charging purposes?

e)Intro/conclusion