Exam 7: Activity-Based Costing: a Tool to Aid Decision Making

Deemer Corporation has an activity-based costing system with three activity cost pools--Processing, Supervising, and Other. In the first stage allocations, costs in the two overhead accounts, equipment expense and indirect labor, are allocated to the three activity cost pools based on resource consumption. Data used in the first stage allocations follow: Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activity Cost Pools: Processing costs are assigned to products using machine-hours (MHs) and Supervising costs are assigned to products using the number of batches. The costs in the Other activity cost pool are not assigned to products. Activity data for the company's two products follow:Activity: What is the overhead cost assigned to Product X0 under activity-based costing?

Callum Corporation is conducting a time-driven activity-based costing study in its Tech Support Department. The company has provided the following data to aid in that study: On the Capacity Analysis report in time-driven activity-based costing, the "impact on expenses of matching capacity with demand" would be closest to: