Activity rates from Quattrone Corporation's activity-based costing system are listed below. The company uses the activity rates to assign overhead costs to products: Last year, Product F76D included the following activities: 2 customer orders, 434 assembly hours, and 20 batches. How much overhead cost would be assigned to Product F76D using the activity-based costing system?

Phoenix guitars is interested in pursuing backward integration to take greater ownership of the extraction of raw materials and production of components used in its signature line of guitars. although this approach would lower the overall cost of producing a guitar, the costs associated with producing electronic pickupsfor sound amplification are far greater than those associated with sourcing pickups from a reliable supplier. which of the following approaches is likely to produce superior results? a) invest in vertical integration despite the cost of producing pickups. b) abandon the idea of vertical integration entirely. c) pursue taper integration. d) introduce a budget line of guitars to diversify the firm's offerings.