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Which of the following statements is true of activity-based costing?

A) In activity-based costing, direct labor-hours is always the best allocation base to allocate all non-manufacturing indirect costs.
B) Activity based costing is more suited to companies with high product diversity than companies with single product line.
C) Activity based costing broadly averages or spreads the cost of resources uniformly to cost objects such as products or services.
D) The main advantage of activity-based costing over peanut-butter costing is the accurate distribution of all direct costs to the products.

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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Which of the following is true of refinement of a costing system?

A) While refining a costing system, companies should identify as many indirect costs as is economically feasible.
B) A homogeneous cost pool will use multiple cost drivers to allocate costs.
C) It reduces the use of broad averages for assigning the cost of resources to cost objects.
D) It is likely to yield the most decision-making benefits when direct costs are a high percentage of total costs.

E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

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Answer the following questions using the information below: Velshi Printers has contracts to complete weekly supplements required by forty-six customers. For the year 2015, manufacturing overhead cost estimates total $840,000 for an annual production capacity of 12 million pages. For 2015 Velshi Printers has decided to evaluate the use of additional cost pools. After analyzing manufacturing overhead costs, it was determined that number of design changes, setups, and inspections are the primary manufacturing overhead cost drivers. The following information was gathered during the analysis: $\begin{array} { l r r } \text { Cost pool } & \text { Manufacturing overhead costs } & \text { Activity level } \\\text { Design changes } & \$ 120,000 & 300 \text { design changes } \\\text { Setups } & 640,000 & 5,000 \text { setups } \\\text { Inspections } & 80,000 & 8,000 \text { inspections } \\\text { Total manufacturing overhead costs } & \$ 840,000 &\end{array}$ During 2015, two customers, Money Managers and Hospital Systems, are expected to use the following printing services: $\begin{array} { l r r } \text { Activity } & \text { Money Managers } & \text { Hospital Systems } \\\text { Pages } & 60,000 & 76,000 \\\text { Design changes } & 10 & 0 \\\text { Setups } & 20 & 10 \\\text { Inspections } & 30 & 38\end{array}$ -Using pages printed as the only overhead cost driver,what is the manufacturing overhead cost estimate for Money Managers during 2015?

Collin Inc.produces hospital equipment and the setup requirements vary from product to product.Collin produces its products based on customer orders and uses ABC costing.In one of its indirect cost pools,setup costs and distribution costs are pooled together.Costs in this pool are allocated using number of customer orders for the easiness of costing operations.Based on the information provided,which of the following arguments is valid?

If companies increase market share in a given product line because their reported costs are less than their actual costs,they will become more profitable in the long run.

For each of the following activities identify an appropriate activity-cost driver. a.machine maintenance b.machine setup c.quality control d.material ordering e.production scheduling f.warehouse expense g.engineering design

Which of the following statements is true of ABC systems?

Is it advisable to ignore facility-sustaining cost drivers during product costing?

Answer the following questions using the information below: Products S5 and CP8 each are assigned $100.00 in indirect costs by a traditional costing system. An activity analysis revealed that although production requirements are identical, S5 requires 45 minutes less setup time than CP8. -According to an ABC system,S5 uses a disproportionately ________.

Which of the following is true of Zitriks' overhead costing?

________ is considered while choosing a cost allocation base for activity costs in ABC costing.

ABC assumes all costs are ________ because over the long run management can adjust the amount of resources employed.

Which of the following is a sign that a "smoothing out" costing system exists?

A single indirect-cost rate distort product costs because ________.

Demand for refinements to the costing system has accelerated due to ________.

ABC systems create ________.

Teecorp Company provides the following ABC costing information: $\begin{array} { l c c } \text { Activities } & \text { Total Costs } & \text { Activity-cost drivers } \\\text { Labor } & \$ 320,000 & 8,000 \text { hours } \\\text { Gas } & \$ 36,000 & 6,000 \text { gallons } \\\text { Invoices } & \$ 40,000 & 2,500 \text { invoices } \\\quad \text { Total costs } & \$ 396,000 &\end{array}$ The above activities used by their three departments are: $\begin{array} { c c c } &\text { Lawn Department } & \text { Bush Department } & \text { Plowing Department } \\\text { Labor } & 2,500 \text { hours } & 1,200 \text { hours } & 4,300 \text { hours } \\\text { Gas } & 1,700 \text { gallons } & 800 \text { gallons } & 3,500 \text { gallons } \\\text { Invoices } & 1,600 \text { invoices } & 400 \text { invoices } & 500 \text { invoices }\end{array}$ -How much of the total cost will be assigned to the Plowing Department?

Answer the following questions using the information below: Velshi Printers has contracts to complete weekly supplements required by forty-six customers. For the year 2015, manufacturing overhead cost estimates total $840,000 for an annual production capacity of 12 million pages. For 2015 Velshi Printers has decided to evaluate the use of additional cost pools. After analyzing manufacturing overhead costs, it was determined that number of design changes, setups, and inspections are the primary manufacturing overhead cost drivers. The following information was gathered during the analysis: $\begin{array} { l r r } \text { Cost pool } & \text { Manufacturing overhead costs } & \text { Activity level } \\\text { Design changes } & \$ 120,000 & 300 \text { design changes } \\\text { Setups } & 640,000 & 5,000 \text { setups } \\\text { Inspections } & 80,000 & 8,000 \text { inspections } \\\text { Total manufacturing overhead costs } & \$ 840,000 &\end{array}$ During 2015, two customers, Money Managers and Hospital Systems, are expected to use the following printing services: $\begin{array} { l r r } \text { Activity } & \text { Money Managers } & \text { Hospital Systems } \\\text { Pages } & 60,000 & 76,000 \\\text { Design changes } & 10 & 0 \\\text { Setups } & 20 & 10 \\\text { Inspections } & 30 & 38\end{array}$ -What is the cost driver rate if manufacturing overhead costs are considered one large cost pool and are assigned based on 12 million pages of production capacity?

Answer the following questions using the information below: Comfort Corporation manufactures two models of office chairs, a standard and a deluxe model. The following activity and cost information has been compiled: $\begin{array}{lrrr}&\text { Number of }&\text { Number of }&\text { Number of } \\\text { Product }&\text { Setups }&\text { Components }&\text { Direct Labor Hours }\\\text { Standard } & 12 & 8 & 255 \\\text { Deluxe } & 28 & 12 & 245 \\\text { Overhead costs } & \$ 52,000 & \$ 78,000 \end{array}$ -Assume a traditional costing system applies the overhead costs based on direct labor hours.What is the total amount of overhead costs assigned to the deluxe model?

Answer the following questions using the information below: Cannady produces six products. Under their traditional cost system using one cost driver, SR6 costs $168.00 per unit. An analysis of the activities and their costs revealed that three cost drivers would be used under the new ABC system. The new cost of SR6 was determined to be $178.00 per unit. -Given this change in the cost ________.