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MBA, Ph.D in Management
Harvard university
Feb-1997 - Aug-2003
Professor
Strayer University
Jan-2007 - Present
1. Which of the following activities would be classified as a batchÂlevel activity? Circle One: Milling a part required for the final product. Setting up equipment. Designing a new product. Training employees. 2. Which of the following is not a limitation of activityÂbased costing? Circle One. Maintaining an activityÂbased costing system is more costly than maintaining a traditional direct laborÂbased costing system. In practice, most managers insist on fully allocating all costs to products, customers, and other costing objects in an activityÂbased costing system. This results in overstated costs. More accurate product costs may result in increasing the selling prices
of some products. Changing from a traditional direct laborÂbased costing system to an activityÂbased costing system changes product margins and other key performance indicators used by managers. Such changes are often resisted by managers. 3. Designing a new product is an example of a: UnitÂlevel activity.
OrganizationÂsustaining activity. BatchÂlevel activity. ProductÂlevel activity. 4. Bulmash Corporation uses an activityÂbased costing system with the following three activity cost pools: Activity Cost Pool
Total Activity
Fabrication
40,000 machineÂhours
Order processing
500 orders
Other
Not applicable The Other activity cost pool is used to accumulate costs of idle capacity and organizationÂsustaining costs.
The company has provided the following data concerning its costs:
Wages and salaries $420,000 Depreciation $100,000 Occupancy $120,000 Total $640,000 The distribution of resource consumption across activity cost pools is given below: Activity Cost Pools Fabricatio
Tota Order Processing Other
n
l
100
Wages and salaries 5%
80%
15%
%
100
Depreciation
15%
45%
40%
%
100
Occupancy
25%
50%
25%
% The activity rate for the Fabrication activity cost pool is closest to: $2.40 per machineÂhour $1.65 per machineÂhour 5. $0.80 per machineÂhour $4.00 per machineÂhour Jordan Corporation uses an activityÂbased costing system with the following three activity cost pools: Activity Cost Pool
Fabrication Total Activity
70,000 machineÂhours Order processing
500 orders
Other
Not applicable The Other activity cost pool is used to accumulate costs of idle capacity and organizationÂsustaining costs.
The company has provided the following data concerning its costs:
Wages and salaries $420,000
Depreciation $160,000
Occupancy $200,000 Total $780,000 The distribution of resource consumption across activity cost pools is given below: Activity Cost Pools Order Fabrication
Other
Total
Processing
Wages and 60%
20%
20%
100%
salaries
Depreciation
5%
60%
35%
100%
Occupancy
25%
50%
25%
100% The activity rate for the Order Processing activity cost pool is closest to: $780 per order $676 per order 6. $312 per order $560 per order Wenston Corporation has provided the following data concerning its overhead costs for the coming year:
Wages and salaries $440,000
Depreciation $120,000
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