Sutherland Company listed the following data for 2019:

Budgeted factory overhead $ 2,100,000
Budgeted direct labor hours 89,000
Budgeted machine hours 51,000
Actual factory overhead 2,201,000
Actual direct labor hours 83,700
Actual machine hours 48,900

Assuming Sutherland applied overhead based on direct labor hours, the company's predetermined overhead rate for 2019 is (round to two significant digits):

Activity-based costing (abc) is not truly a cost collection mechanism as much as it is an inventory valuation method. the main purpose for implementing an activity-based cost system is to try to overcome some of the cost distortions that occur in traditional costing from product differences when there are variations in size and complexity. however, one of the disadvantages of utilizing abc is that the additional information gathering necessary to implement costing with that level of detail might be beyond the reach of some companies with resource or financial constraints. with this in mind, what kinds of industries or companies do you think would benefit most from using activity-based costing and why? in designing or modifying an accounting system to capture appropriate costs for abc, what considerations do you think would need to be made?