Question 1

Cosgrove Company manufactures two products,Product K-7 and Product L-15.Product L-15 is of fairly recent origin,having been developed as an attempt to enter a market closely related to that of Product K-7.Product L-15 is the more complex of the two products,requiring 2.0 hours of direct labor time per unit to manufacture compared to 1.0 hour of direct labor time for Product K-7.Product L-15 is produced on an automated production line.
Overhead currently is applied to the products on the basis of direct labor-hours.The company estimated it would incur $510,000 in manufacturing overhead costs and produce 10,000 units of Product L-15 and 40,000 units of Product K- 7 during the current year.
Unit costs for materials and labor are:
  
Required:
a.Compute the predetermined overhead rate under the current method,and determine the unit product cost of each product for the current year.
b.The company is considering the use of activity-based costing as an alternative to its traditional costing method for manufacturing overhead.Data relating to the company's activity cost pools for the current year are given below:
 
 Using the data above,determine the unit product cost of each product for the current year.
c.What items of overhead cost make Product L-15 so costly to produce according to the activity-based costing system?
 What influence might the activity-based costing data have on management's opinions regarding the profitability of Product L-15?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Cosgrove Company manufactures two products,Product K-7 and...

Question 2

A system of assigning costs to departments and products on the basis of a variety of activities instead of only one allocation base is called:

Accepted Answer

A) A responsibility accounting system. 
B) A cost center accounting system. 
C) Controllable costing. 
D) Activity-based costing. 
E) Performance costing.

Question 3

In activity-based costing,there are a number of activity cost pools,each of which is allocated to products and other costing objects using its own unique measure of activity.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Reach Consulting Corporation has its headquarters in Chicago and operates from three branch offices in Portland,Dallas,and Miami.Two of the company's activity cost pools are General Service and Research Service.These costs are allocated to the three branch offices using an activity-based costing system.Information for next year follows:  Estimated branch data for next year is as follows:
 How much of the headquarters cost allocation should Dallas expect to receive next year?

Accepted Answer

A) $280,000 
B) $409,500 
C) $472,500 
D) $504,000 
E) $560,000

Question 5

The following is taken from Ames Company's internal records of its factory with two operating departments.The cost driver for indirect labor is direct labor costs,and the cost driver for the remaining items is number of hours of machine use.Compute the total amount of overhead allocated to Dept.1 using activity-based costing.

Accepted Answer

A) $18,720. 
B) $12,930. 
C) $13,400. 
D) $19,190. 
E) $19,440.

Question 6

A _________________ is a factor that causes the cost of an activity to go up and down.

Accepted Answer

The answer of A _________________ is a factor that causes...

Question 7

An activity __________________ is a temporary account accumulating the costs a company incurs to support an identified set of activities.

Accepted Answer

The answer of An activity __________________ is a temporary account...

Question 8

In activity-based costing,some manufacturing costs may be excluded from product costs.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Activity-based costing can be especially effective in situations where many different products are manufactured in the same department or departments.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Briefly describe the process of activity-based costing.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Briefly describe the process of activity-based costing....

Question 11

Which of the following is not a limitation of activity-based costing?

Accepted Answer

A) Maintaining an activity-based costing system is more costly than maintaining a traditional direct labor-based costing system. 
B) Changing from a traditional direct labor-based costing system to an activity-based costing system changes product margins and other key performance indicators used by managers.Such changes are often resisted by managers. 
C) In practice, most managers insist on fully allocating all costs to products, customers, and other costing objects in an activity-based costing system.This results in overstated costs. 
D) More accurate product costs may result in increasing the selling prices of some products. 
E) All of the choices are not limitations of activity-based costing.

Question 12

Activity based costing can be applied to:

Accepted Answer

A) Manufacturing activities only. 
B) Service activities only. 
C) Merchandising activities only. 
D) Any company in any industry. 
E) Government only.

Question 13

Activity-based costing is a costing method that is designed to provide managers with product cost information for external financial reports.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Activity cost pools are an important part of the allocation of overhead costs using activity-based costing.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

An activity-based costing system usually involves a fewer number of allocations compared with a traditional cost allocation system.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

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 involved 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?

Accepted Answer

A) $1,041.80 
B) $2,000.04 
C) $66,908.88 
D) $146.73 
E) $772.52

Question 17

An activity-based cost allocation system:

Accepted Answer

A) Is one form of a direct or variable costing system. 
B) Does not provide total unit cost data. 
C) Traces costs to products on the basis of activities performed on them. 
D) Does not provide for the allocation of any cost to products that cannot be directly attributable to those products. 
E) Does not involve the level of detail and the number of allocations that companies make with traditional allocation methods.

Exam 27: Activity-Based Costing C

A system of assigning costs to departments and products on the basis of a variety of activities instead of only one allocation base is called:

In activity-based costing,there are a number of activity cost pools,each of which is allocated to products and other costing objects using its own unique measure of activity.

A _________________ is a factor that causes the cost of an activity to go up and down.

An activity __________________ is a temporary account accumulating the costs a company incurs to support an identified set of activities.

In activity-based costing,some manufacturing costs may be excluded from product costs.

Activity-based costing can be especially effective in situations where many different products are manufactured in the same department or departments.

Briefly describe the process of activity-based costing.

Which of the following is not a limitation of activity-based costing?

Activity based costing can be applied to:

Activity-based costing is a costing method that is designed to provide managers with product cost information for external financial reports.

Activity cost pools are an important part of the allocation of overhead costs using activity-based costing.

An activity-based costing system usually involves a fewer number of allocations compared with a traditional cost allocation system.

An activity-based cost allocation system: