Direct labor or machine hours may not be the appropriate cost driver for overhead in all areas of manufacturing due to the complexities of many manufacturing processes. Many companies use activity-based costing (ABC) which uses multiple drivers (items that consume resources) rather than just one driver to apply overhead to their activities. With ABC, a company can use a cost driver that has a direct cause/effect relationship in its applied overhead costs. Waterways looked into ABC as a method of costing because of the variety of items it produces and the many different activities in which it is involved. The activities listed below are a sample of possible cost pools for Waterways. Assembling Payroll Billing Plant supervision Digging trenches Product design Janitorial Purchasing materials Machine maintenance Selling Machine setups Testing Molding Welding Packaging For each of the above cost pools, what would be the likely activity cost driver

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Waterways Corporation

Cost Pools                       Possible Activity Cost Drivers

Assembling                     Direct labor hours

Payroll                              Number of employees

Billing                               Number of invoices

Plant supervision            Number of factory workers

Digging trenches            Depth of trenches

Product design                Number of designs

Janitorial                          Floor space

Purchasing materials      Units of materials

Machine maintenance    Maintenance hours

Selling                              Units sold

Machine setups              Number of machine setups

Testing                            Testing hours

Molding                            Number of units molded

Welding                            Machine hours

Packaging                        Number of units packaged

Explanation:

a) Cost Pools for Waterways:

Assembling

Payroll

Billing

Plant supervision

Digging trenches

Product design

Janitorial

Purchasing materials

Machine maintenance

Selling

Machine setups

Testing

Molding

Welding

Packaging