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1
A company using the traditional volume-based overhead assignment (allocation) method will tend to:
A)overstate the cost of low volume products.
B)understate the cost of high volume products.
C)understate the cost of low volume products.
D)understate the cost of all products.
E)Both a and b are correct.

USE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION TO ANSWER QUESTIONS 2, 3, 4 AND 5:

Harry Company has established the following overhead cost pools and cost drivers for the month of July:

Cost PoolOverhead CostsCost Driver Levels
Electricity$30,00010,000-kilowatt hours
Purchase orders90,00050 orders
Machine setups150,000100 setups
Miscellaneous overhead costs183,0001,000 machine hours


Expected direct labor costs for July is 20,000 hours at $10 per hour.

Product X100 consumed 800 kilowatt hours, 5 orders, 10 setups, 90 machine hours, and 1,800 direct labor hours. Additionally it required $25,000 of materials.

2
What is the overhead rate assuming that the firm is using a volume-based procedure and that direct labor hours will be its cost driver?
A)$4.50 per DLH
B)$22.65 per DLH
C)$18.30 per DLH
D)$3.00 per DLH.
3
What is the overhead rate per purchase order using activity-based costing?
A)$1,830
B)$1,500
C)$1,800
D)$4.50
E)$22.65
4
What is the amount of total costs assigned to job X100 assuming that the firm is using a volume-based procedure?
A)$83,770
B)$40,770
C)$496,000
D)$85,870
5
What is the amount of total costs assigned to job X100 assuming that the firm is using activity-based costing?
A)$83,770
B)$42,870
C)$496,000
D)$85,870

USE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION TO ANSWER QUESTIONS 6 AND 7:

Franklin Company has identified the following cost drivers for its expected overhead costs for the year:

Cost PoolsBudgeted CostCost DriverCost Driver Level
Setup$40,000Number of setups100
Ordering20,000Number of orders500
Maintenance 50,000Machine hours2,500
Power10,000Kilowatt hours5,000


Total direct labor hours budgeted = 1,000 hours.

The following data applies to one of the products completed during the year:

Product Y
CostDriver Consumption
Direct materials$1,000Number of setups2
Direct labor$1,200Number of orders5
Units completed200Machine hours25
Direct labor hours80Kilowatt hours50

6
If the activity-based cost drivers are used to allocate overhead cost, the total overhead cost of Product Y will be:
A)$1,500
B)$1,600
C)$2,200
D)$2,800
E)$3,800
7
If the activity-based cost drivers are used to allocate overhead cost, the total cost of Product X will be:
A)$3,700
B)$3,900
C)$2,200
D)$3,800
8
Elimination of low-value-added activities in a firm should:
A)be discouraged because of potential harmful effects.
B)not affect the form, fit, or function of the product or service.
C)not have priority because non-value-added activities do not affect a firm's performance.
D)have priority only when a firm is operating at a loss.
9
What ABC/M tool is used to answer the following critical question?
What do we do?
A)Activity analysis
B)Activity-based costing
C)Performance Measurement
D)Total Quality Management
10
Which of the following is a true statement?
A)ABC/M applications are not commonly used by manufacturing firms.
B)ABC/M applications are only used by manufacturing firms.
C)ABC/M applications are not commonly used by governmental units.
D)ABC/M are commonly used in most industries.
11
__________ identifies customer service activities, cost drivers, and the profitability of individual customers or groups of customers.
A)Customer revenue analysis
B)Customer cost analysis
C)Customer value assessment
D)Customer profitability analysis
12
Which of the following is a customer batch-level cost category?
A)Order processing is $1 per item.
B)Monthly billing is $5 per statement.
C)Salaries and fringe benefits are $100,000 per month.
D)Restocking is $5 per item.
E)Order taking is $30 per order.
13
Customer costs can be classified into all of the following categories, except:
A)Customer batch-level costs.
B)Distribution-channel profits.
C)Sales-sustaining costs.
D)Customer-sustaining costs.
14
Customer lifetime value (CLV) is:
A)The net future value of all estimated future profits from the customer.
B)The estimated future profits from the customer.
C)The net present value of all estimated future profits from the customer.
D)The net present value of all estimated profits over the past 10 years.
15
Successful ABC/M implementation requires close cooperation among the management accountant and:
A)engineers.
B)manufacturing managers.
C)operating managers.
D)All of the above is correct.
E)None of the above is correct.







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