uestion 1
In a labor-intensive manufacturing company, overhead costs are usually assumed to be closely related to the level of direct labor hours.
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False
4.09 points
Question 2
In a high-tech company, where production is highly automated, overhead costs are assumed to be closely related to the level of direct labor hours.
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False
4.17 points
Question 3
Understanding the sources of overhead costs is necessary for a company to effectively compete in today's marketplace.
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False
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Question 4
Activity-Based Costing assumes that most overhead costs can be easily allocated based on one or two drivers.
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False
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Question 5
Activity-Based Costing presumes that all costs are static regardless of the level of activity or production, and seeks to fairly allocate those costs.
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False
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Question 6
Activity-Based Costing is based on a deep understanding of the activities that a company engages in while pursuing economic objectives.
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False
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Question 7
Under Activity-Based Costing, it is important for there to be a high correlation between the change in the level of costs and the change in the use of the driver on which those costs are allocated.
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False
4.17 points
Question 8
It is not necessary for a cost driver to be closely related to the cost pool under Activity-Based Costing: the nature of the costing system permits the use of any driver, as long as it is consistently applied.
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False
4.17 points
Question 9
It is better to base a predetermined overhead rate on the practical capacity of production rather than actual production.
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False
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Question 10
Production department overhead costs are those costs directly related to production, such as direct materials and direct labor.
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False
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Question 11
Support department costs come from departments that are not directly associated with production.
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False
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Question 12
Using Activity-Based Costing results in a different total amount of overhead allocated than that allocated under traditional costing models.
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False
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Question 13
An Activity-Based Costing system must be complex in order to be effective.
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False
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Question 14
Often a company will maintain their financial records using a traditional costing method, even if Activity-Based Costing is used to make management decisions.
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False
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Question 15
Increasing the number of cost pools in an Activity-Based Costing system will almost always result in cost savings.
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False
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Question 16
Most companies will initially switch all their financial records to an Activity-Based Costing method, because it facilitates auditing and tax preparation.
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False
4.17 points
Question 17
A high-sales-volume customer may not necessarily be a profitable customer.
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False
4.17 points
Question 18
Even if a company provides a standardized product or service, they may still have customers that are unprofitable.
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False
4.17 points
Question 19
Dropping an unprofitable customer will always result in immediate improvements in company profits.
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False
4.17 points
Question 20
A company should always drop an unprofitable customer.
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False
4.17 points
Question 21
Activity-based management is an activity that is similar to Activity-Based Costing but requires a very different set of information.
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False
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Question 22
The information needed for activity-based management is a direct byproduct of Activity-Based Costing.
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False
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Question 23
Activity-based management is designed to help management know which activities add the most value to goods and services.
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False
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Question 24
While useful, activity-based management and Activity-Based Costing information is not always cost efficient to obtain.
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False
Ans 1 True
Ans 2 True
Ans 3 True
Understanding the sources of overhead costs is necessary for a company to effectively compete in today's marketplace.
Ans 4 False
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uestion 1 In a labor-intensive manufacturing company, overhead costs are usually assumed to be closely related...
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EcoFabrics has budgeted overhead costs of $1,152,900. It has allocated overhead on a plantwide basis to its two products (wool and cotton) using direct labor hours which are estimated to be 549,000 for the current year. The company has decided to experiment with activity-based costing and has created two activity cost pools and related activity cost drivers. These two cost pools are cutting (cost driver is machine hours) and design (cost driver is number of setups). Overhead allocated to the...
EcoFabrics has budgeted overhead costs of $1,039,500. It has allocated overhead on a plantwide basis to its two products (wool and cotton) using direct labor hours which are estimated to be 495,000 for the current year. The company has decided to experiment with activity-based costing and has created two activity cost pools and related activity cost drivers. These two cost pools are cutting (cost driver is machine hours) and design (cost driver is number of setups). Overhead allocated to the...
EcoFabrics has budgeted overhead costs of $1,039,500. It has allocated overhead on a plantwide basis cotton) using direct labor hours which are estimated to be 495,000 for the current year. The company has decided to experiment with activity-based costing and has created two activity cost pools and related activity cost drivers. These two cost pools are cutting (cost driver is machine hours) and design (cost driver is number of setups). Overhead allocated to the cutting cost pool is $396,000 and...
Finch Company produces commercial gardening equipment. Since production is highly automated, the company allocates its overhead costs to product lines using activity-based costing. The costs and cost drivers associated with the four overhead activity cost pools follow: Activities Unit Level Batch Level Product Level Facility Level Cost $ 25, 200 $21,090 $13,000 $190,000 Cost driver 1,200 labor hrs. 37 setups Percentage of use 10,000 units Production of 860 sets of cutting shears, one of the company's 20 products, took 200...
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