Wayne Company makes two types of circuit boards. One is a high-caliber board designed to accomplish the most demanding tasks; the other is a low-caliber board designed to provide limited service at an affordable price. During its most recent accounting period, Wayne incurred Rs.170,000 of inspection cost. When Wayne recently established an activity-based costing system, its activities were classified into four categories. Categories and appropriate cost drivers follow
Direct
Labor Hours
Number
of Batches
Number
of Inspectors
Number
of Square Feet
High caliber 3,000 20 3 30,000
Low caliber 14,000 20 2 70,000
Total 17,000 40 5 100,000
Required
Allocate the inspection cost between the two products assuming that it is driven by (a) unit-level activities, (b) batch-level activities, (c) product-level activities, or (d) facility-level activities. Note that each allocation represents a separate alternative. In other words, the Rs.170,000 of inspection cost will be allocated four times, once for each cost driver.