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Engelhardt,Inc During the Current Month,Engelhardt's Consultants Spent 150 Labor Hours for Overhead

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Engelhardt,Inc. ,a law consulting firm,has been using a single predetermined overhead allocation rate with direct labor hours as the allocation base to allocate overhead costs.The direct labor rate is $40 per hour.Ted Heath,the president of Engelhardt,decided to develop an ABC system to accurately allocate the indirect costs.He identified two activities related to the total indirect costs-travel and information technology (IT) support.The other relevant details are given below:  Activity  Allocation base  Estimated costs  Estimated quantity  of allocation base  Travel  Miles driven $77,0003,500miles IT Support  Direct labor hours 55,0001,250DLH Total $132,000,00\begin{array}{|l|l|r|r|}\hline\text { Activity } & \text { Allocation base } & \text { Estimated costs } & \begin{array}{c}\text { Estimated quantity } \\\text { of allocation base }\end{array} \\\hline \text { Travel } & \text { Miles driven } & \$ 77,000 & 3,500 \mathrm{miles} \\\hline \text { IT Support } & \text { Direct labor hours } & \underline{55,000} & 1,250 \mathrm{DLH} \\\hline \text { Total } & & \$ 132,000,00 & \\\hline\end{array} During the current month,Engelhardt's consultants spent 150 labor hours for Cunningham,Inc.The job required the professionals to travel 400 miles in total.Determine the total cost of the consulting job using the ABC system.(Round any intermediate calculations to the nearest cent and your final answer to the nearest dollar. )


A) $6,000
B) $1,760
C) $6,600
D) $21,400

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