An activity analysis at Sky High Pie Company found the following activities for its pie makers: 25 percent of time, adding ingredients; 50 percent of time, mixing and kneading pie dough; 7 percent of time, shaping into pans; and 18 percent of time, cleaning up. The total salary and benefits cost pool for pie makers is $850,000 per year. Sky High Pie is considering buying new equipment that would reduce the time required to mix and knead by 50 percent.

a. What is the potential savings to Sky High Pie per year if it acquires the new equipment?
b. Besides customer defined value-added changes, Sky High Pie should consider the impact of the new mixing machines on the quality of their product. Is this statement true or false?

Acompany has two products: standard and deluxe. the company expects to produce 36,375 standard units and 62,240 deluxe units. it uses activity-based costing and has prepared the following analysis showing budgeted cost and cost driver activity for each of its three activity cost pools.budgeted activity of cost driver activity cost pool budgeted cost standard deluxe activity 1 $ 93,000 2,500 5,250 activity 2 $ 92,000 4,500 5,500 activity 3 $ 87,000 3,000 2,800 what is the overhead cost per unit for the standard units? what is the overhead cost per unit for the deluxe units? (round activity rate and cost per unit answers to 2 decimal places.)activity expected costs expected activity driver activity rate1 93,000 2 92,000 3 87,000 standard activity activity driver activity rate allocated costs1 2 3

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