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Activity-based costing (ABC) can eliminate cost distortions because ABC systems ________.


A) establish a cause-and-effect relationship with the activities performed
B) use single cost pool for all overhead costs,thereby enabling simplicity
C) use a broad average to allocate all overhead costs
D) never consider interactions between different departments in assigning support costs

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Xylon Corp.has contracts to complete weekly supplements required by forty-six customers.For the year 2018,manufacturing overhead cost estimates total $940,000 for an annual production capacity of 10 million pages. For 2018,Xylon 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: Xylon Corp.has contracts to complete weekly supplements required by forty-six customers.For the year 2018,manufacturing overhead cost estimates total $940,000 for an annual production capacity of 10 million pages. For 2018,Xylon 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:   During 2018,two customers,Money Managers and Hospital Systems,are expected to use the following printing services:   Under ABC costing,what is the inspection cost allocated to Hospital Systems? A) $704 B) $80 C) $286 D) $6,574 During 2018,two customers,Money Managers and Hospital Systems,are expected to use the following printing services: Xylon Corp.has contracts to complete weekly supplements required by forty-six customers.For the year 2018,manufacturing overhead cost estimates total $940,000 for an annual production capacity of 10 million pages. For 2018,Xylon 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:   During 2018,two customers,Money Managers and Hospital Systems,are expected to use the following printing services:   Under ABC costing,what is the inspection cost allocated to Hospital Systems? A) $704 B) $80 C) $286 D) $6,574 Under ABC costing,what is the inspection cost allocated to Hospital Systems?


A) $704
B) $80
C) $286
D) $6,574

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Facility-sustaining costs are the costs of activities ________.


A) undertaken to support individual products or services regardless of the number of units or batches in which the units are produced
B) related to a group of units of a product or services,rather than each individual unit of product or service
C) that managers cannot trace to individual products or services but that support the organization as a whole
D) performed on each individual unit of a product or service such as the cost of energy,machine depreciation,and repair

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Columbus Company provides the following ABC costing information: Columbus Company provides the following ABC costing information:   The above activities used by their three departments are:   How much of the total cost will be assigned to the Plowing Department? A) $564,000 B) $311,600 C) $188,000 D) $173,600 The above activities used by their three departments are: Columbus Company provides the following ABC costing information:   The above activities used by their three departments are:   How much of the total cost will be assigned to the Plowing Department? A) $564,000 B) $311,600 C) $188,000 D) $173,600 How much of the total cost will be assigned to the Plowing Department?


A) $564,000
B) $311,600
C) $188,000
D) $173,600

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For a business that offers customers a store where product can be purchased and picked up or a delivery service that can ship the product directly to the customer,which of the following would most likely be the best cost allocation base for distribution costs?


A) number of customer service phone calls and emails per period
B) number of pounds of product shipped or delivered
C) Electricity costs for the period
D) Number of products sold

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Stark Corporation has two departments,Car Rental and Truck Rental.Central costs may be allocated to the two departments in various ways. Stark Corporation has two departments,Car Rental and Truck Rental.Central costs may be allocated to the two departments in various ways.   If the facility lease expense of $381,000 is allocated on the basis of vehicles in the fleet,the amount allocated to the Car Rental Department would be ________.(Do not round interim calculations.Round the final answer to the nearest whole dollar. )  A) $381,000 B) $249,226 C) $190,500 D) $249,382 If the facility lease expense of $381,000 is allocated on the basis of vehicles in the fleet,the amount allocated to the Car Rental Department would be ________.(Do not round interim calculations.Round the final answer to the nearest whole dollar. )


A) $381,000
B) $249,226
C) $190,500
D) $249,382

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Implementing activity-based costing system involves use of different cost rates for different activities to compute indirect costs of a product.

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Tiger Pride produces two product lines: T-shirts and Sweatshirts.Product profitability is analyzed as follows: Tiger Pride produces two product lines: T-shirts and Sweatshirts.Product profitability is analyzed as follows:   Tiger Pride's managers have decided to revise their current assignment of overhead costs to reflect the following ABC cost information:     Under the revised ABC system,the activity-cost driver rate for the supervision activity is ________. A) $1.70 B) $2.70 C) $2.16 D) $1.2 Tiger Pride's managers have decided to revise their current assignment of overhead costs to reflect the following ABC cost information: Tiger Pride produces two product lines: T-shirts and Sweatshirts.Product profitability is analyzed as follows:   Tiger Pride's managers have decided to revise their current assignment of overhead costs to reflect the following ABC cost information:     Under the revised ABC system,the activity-cost driver rate for the supervision activity is ________. A) $1.70 B) $2.70 C) $2.16 D) $1.2 Tiger Pride produces two product lines: T-shirts and Sweatshirts.Product profitability is analyzed as follows:   Tiger Pride's managers have decided to revise their current assignment of overhead costs to reflect the following ABC cost information:     Under the revised ABC system,the activity-cost driver rate for the supervision activity is ________. A) $1.70 B) $2.70 C) $2.16 D) $1.2 Under the revised ABC system,the activity-cost driver rate for the supervision activity is ________.


A) $1.70
B) $2.70
C) $2.16
D) $1.2

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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.

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Uniformly assigning the costs of resources to cost objects when those resources are actually used in a nonuniform way is called activity based costing.

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In activity based costing systems,limiting cost-allocation bases to only units of output strengthens the cause-and-effect relationship between the cost-allocation base and the costs in a cost pool.

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Dalrymple Company produces a special spray nozzle.The budgeted indirect total cost of inserting the spray nozzle is $68,750.The budgeted number of nozzles to be inserted is 11,000.What is the budgeted indirect cost allocation rate for this activity?


A) $0.16
B) $0.32
C) $1.16
D) $6.25

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Using activity-cost rates rather than department indirect-cost rates to allocate costs results in different product costs when ________.


A) a single activity accounts for a sizable portion of department costs
B) there are several homogeneous cost pools
C) different activities have the same cost-allocation base
D) different products use different resources in the same proportion

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Identification of a cost-allocation base is not a critical element when using a strategy that will refine a costing system.

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Which of the following is true with activity based cost accounting?


A) Activity-based costing ignores the allocation of marketing and distribution costs.
B) Activity-based costing is more likely to result in major differences from traditional costing systems if the firm manufactures only one product rather than multiple products.
C) The focus is on activities that account for a sizable fraction of indirect costs .
D) Chances of product-cost cross-subsidization are higher in activity-based costing compared to traditional costing systems.

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Even though there are no inventories for service companies,ABC systems are of great use for service companies.Explain why and how.

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Service companies find great value from ...

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ABC systems help managers to ________.


A) value ending inventory more accurately
B) identify new designs to reduce costs
C) evaluate direct material costs more efficiently
D) improve the inventory turnaround time

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Quality-inspection costs is an example of batch-level costs.

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Canton Corp.manufactures two sizes of ceramic paperweights,regular and jumbo.The following information applies to their expectations for the planning period: Canton Corp.manufactures two sizes of ceramic paperweights,regular and jumbo.The following information applies to their expectations for the planning period:     Expected direct costs amounts to $942,000 for the period.Support cost requirements of both products are substantially different from one another.Canton uses an ABC costing system. The setups activity-cost driver rate is ________. A) $6.10 per setup B) $5.80 per setup C) $4.15 per setup D) $15.50 per setup Canton Corp.manufactures two sizes of ceramic paperweights,regular and jumbo.The following information applies to their expectations for the planning period:     Expected direct costs amounts to $942,000 for the period.Support cost requirements of both products are substantially different from one another.Canton uses an ABC costing system. The setups activity-cost driver rate is ________. A) $6.10 per setup B) $5.80 per setup C) $4.15 per setup D) $15.50 per setup Expected direct costs amounts to $942,000 for the period.Support cost requirements of both products are substantially different from one another.Canton uses an ABC costing system. The setups activity-cost driver rate is ________.


A) $6.10 per setup
B) $5.80 per setup
C) $4.15 per setup
D) $15.50 per setup

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The reduction in cost per unit of wooden chess pieces under ABC system is due to difference in allocation of ________.


A) labor costs
B) prime costs
C) indirect costs
D) material costs

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