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Accounting
Q:
Greene Company uses a plantwide overhead rate with direct labor hours as the allocation base. Use the following information to solve for the amount of direct labor hours estimated per unit of product G2. Direct material cost per unit of G2
$7 Total estimated manufacturing overhead
$795,000 Total cost per unit of G2
$20 Total estimated direct labor hours
530,000 DLH Direct labor cost per unit of G2
$3.70 A. 1.5 DLH per unit of G2.
B. 6.2 DLH per unit of G2.
C. 9.3 DLH per unit of G2.
D. .66 DLH per unit of G2.
E. 14.09 DLH per unit of G2.
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Yellow Company uses a plantwide overhead rate with machine hours as the allocation base. Use the following information to solve for the amount of machine hours estimated per unit of product RST. Direct material cost per unit of RST
$12 Total estimated manufacturing overhead
$200,000 Total cost per unit of RST
$75 Total estimated machine hours
100,000 MH Direct labor cost per unit of RST
$23 A. 40 MH per unit of RST.
B. 2 MH per unit of RST.
C. 20 MH per unit of RST.
D. 37.5 MH per unit of RST.
E. 80 MH per unit of RST.
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Orange Company uses a plantwide overhead rate with machine hours as the allocation base. Use the following information to solve for the amount of machine hours estimated per unit of product Q. Direct material cost per unit of Q
$10 Total estimated manufacturing overhead
$100,000 Total cost per unit of Q
$65 Total estimated machine hours
200,000 MH Direct labor cost per unit of Q
$20 A. 35 MH per unit of Q.
B. .50 MH per unit of Q.
C. 70 MH per unit of Q.
D. 17.5 MH per unit of Q.
E. 30 MH per unit of Q.
Q:
A company allocates $7.50 overhead to each unit produced. The company uses a plantwide overhead rate with direct labor hours as the allocation base. Given the amounts below, how many direct labor hours does the company expect in department 2? Estimated:
Department 1
Department 2 Manufacturing overhead costs
$74,358
$49,572 Direct labor hours
6,610 DLH
? DLH Machine hours
700 MH
800 MH A. 9,914 DLH
B. 6,612 DLH
C. 3,109 DLH
D. 7,454 DLH
E. 16,254 DLH
Q:
Case Company allocates $5.00 overhead to each unit produced. The company uses a plantwide overhead rate with machine hours as the allocation base. Given the amounts below, how many machine hours does the company expect in department 2? Estimated:
Department 1
Department 2 Manufacturing overhead costs
$250,000
$150,000 Direct labor hours
8,000 DLH
12,000 DLH Machine hours
55,000 MH
? MH A. 25,000 MH
B. 137,500 MH
C. 82,500 MH
D. 88,000 MH
E. 33,000 MH
Q:
Rain Maker Company uses a plantwide overhead rate with direct labor hours as the allocation base. Next year, 350,000 units are expected to be produced taking .80 direct-labor hours each. How much overhead will be assigned to each unit produced given the following estimated amounts? Estimated:
Department 1
Department 2 Manufacturing overhead costs
$2,730,000
$910,000 Direct labor hours
168,000 DLH
112,000 DLH Machine hours
30,000 MH
7,000 MH A. $13.00 per unit
B. $10.40 per unit
C. $16.25 per unit
D. $6.50 per unit
E. $8.13 per unit
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Lake Prairie Company uses a plantwide overhead rate with machine hours as the allocation base. Next year, 500,000 units are expected to be produced taking .75 machine hours each. How much overhead will be assigned to each unit produced given the following estimated amounts? Estimated:
Department 1
Department 2 Manufacturing overhead costs
$3,107,500
$1,520,000 Direct labor hours
150,000 DLH
200,000 DLH Machine hours
200,000 MH
175,000 MH A. $12.34 per unit
B. $7.77 per unit
C. $9.25 per unit
D. $15.20 per unit
E. $10.36 per unit
Q:
The following data relates to Tier One Companys estimated amounts for next year. Estimated:
Department 1
Department 2 Manufacturing overhead costs
$50,000
$40,000 Direct labor hours
150,000 DLH
200,000 DLH Machine hours
300,000 MH
400,000 MH What is the companys plantwide overhead rate if direct labor hours are the allocation base?
(Round to two decimal places.)
A. $3.89 per DLH
B. $3.00 per DLH
C. $0.33 per DLH
D. $0.26 per DLHE. $0.20 per DLH
Q:
The following data relates to All-Out Companys estimated amounts for next year. Estimated:
Department 1
Department 2 Manufacturing overhead costs
$200,000
$400,000 Direct labor hours
60,000 DLH
80,000 DLH Machine hours
1,000 MH
3,000 MH What is the companys plantwide overhead rate if machine hours are the allocation base?
(Round to two decimal places.)
A. $200.00 per MH
B. $150.00 per MH
C. $100.00 per MH
D. $4.29 per MH
E. $5.00 per MH
Q:
The following data relates to Lead Companys estimated amounts for next year. Estimated:
Department 1
Department 2 Manufacturing overhead costs
$1,200,000
$3,400,000 Direct labor hours
560,000 DLH
780,000 DLH Machine hours
91,000 MH
23,000 MH What is the companys plantwide overhead rate if direct labor hours are the allocation base?
(Round to two decimal places)
A. $3.43 per direct labor hour.
B. $2.14 per direct labor hour.
C. $4.36 per direct labor hour.
D. $.29 per direct labor hour.
E. $.47 per direct labor hour.
Q:
A company estimates that overhead costs for the next year will be $9,234,000 for indirect labor and $156,800 for factory utilities. The company uses machine hours as its overhead allocation base. If 500,000 machine hours are planned for this next year, what is the companys plantwide overhead rate? (Round to two decimal places)
A. $0.05 per machine hour.
B. $18.47 per machine hour.
C. $18.78 per machine hour.
D. $0.31 per machine hour.
E. $3.19 per machine hour.
Q:
Ridley Company estimates that overhead costs for the next year will be $6,870,000 for indirect labor and $450,000 for factory utilities. The company uses machine hours as its overhead allocation base. If 160,000 machine hours are planned for this next year, what is the companys plantwide overhead rate?
A. $.02186 per machine hour.
B. $42.9375 per machine hour.
C. $45.75 per machine hour.
D. $2.8125 per machine hour.
E. $.3555 per machine hour.
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K Company estimates that overhead costs for the next year will be $2,900,000 for indirect labor and $800,000 for factory utilities. The company uses direct labor hours as its overhead allocation base. If 80,000 direct labor hours are planned for this next year, what is the companys plantwide overhead rate?
A. $.02 per direct labor hour.
B. $46.25 per direct labor hour.
C. $36.25 per direct labor hour.
D. $10 per direct labor hour.
E. $.10 per direct labor hour.
Q:
What are the main advantages of traditional volume-based allocation methods compared to activity-based costing?
A. Traditional volume-based methods are easier to use and less costly to implement and maintain.
B. Traditional volume-based methods are more accurate and allowed by GAAP.
C. Traditional volume-based methods are less accurate and easier to use.
D. Traditional volume-based methods are harder to use and more costly to implement and maintain.
E. There are no advantages to using traditional volume-based methods.
Q:
What are three advantages of activity-based costing over traditional volume-based allocation methods?
A. Ease of use, more accurate product costing, and more effective cost control.
B. Fewer allocation bases, ease of use, and a direct correlation to production volume.
C. More accurate product costing, more effective cost control, and better focus on the relevant factors for decision making.
D. More accurate product costing, fewer cost objects, and a direct correlation to production volume.
E. More accurate product costing, ease of use, less costly to implement.
Q:
Which of the following is not true?
A. The departmental overhead method assigns overhead on the basis of volume-related measures.
B. The departmental overhead rate method is more refined than the plantwide overhead rate method.
C. Overhead costing accuracy is improved by the use of multiple departmental rates rather than a single overhead rate.
D. The departmental overhead rate method does not assign overhead on the basis of volume-related measures.
E. The departmental overhead rate method is more costly to implement than the traditional overhead rate method.
Q:
Which of the following is a disadvantage of the departmental overhead rate method?
A. The departmental overhead rate method assigns overhead on the basis of volume-related measures.
B. The departmental overhead rate method is more refined than the plantwide overhead rate method.
C. The departmental overhead rate method does not assign overhead on the basis of volume-related measures.
D. The departmental overhead rate method is simpler and less costly to implement than the plantwide rate method.
E. There are no disadvantages of the departmental overhead rate method.
Q:
Which of the following is true?
A. Overhead costs are often affected by many issues and are frequently too complex to be explained by any one factor.
B. The departmental overhead rate is not usually based on measures closely related to production volume.
C. The departmental overhead rate is most accurate in assigning overhead costs that are not driven by production volume.
D. Allocated overhead costs will be the same no matter which allocation method is used.
E. When cost analysts are able to logically trace cost objects to costs, costing accuracy is improved.
Q:
Which of the following companies would be best served by a plantwide overhead rate?
A. A company that manufactures many different products and whose operations are an equal mix of labor and mechanized work.
B. A company that manufactures few products and whose operations are labor intensive.
C. A company that manufactures many different products and whose operations are highly mechanized.
D. A company whose products use overhead resources in very different ways.
E. A company whose products differ in batch size and complexity and consume different amounts of overhead resources.
Q:
Which of the following are advantages of using the plantwide overhead rate method?
A. The use of cost pools is considerably more accurate than other overhead allocations.
B. The necessary information is readily available.
C. It is more accurate than traditional overhead allocations.
D. Each department has its own overhead rate and its own allocation base.
E. It takes into account that when products differ in batch size and complexity, they usually consume different amounts of overhead resources.
Q:
What is the reason for pooling costs?
A. To shift costs from low-volume to high-volume products.
B. It is a budgeting technique designed to accurately track fixed costs.
C. Determining a pool rate for all costs incurred by the same activity reduces the number of cost assignments required.
D. This procedure helps to determine which costs are directly related to production volume.
E. It simplifies departmental overhead costing procedures.
Q:
Which of the following statements is true with regard to activity-based costing rates?
A. The premise of ABC is that activities are what cause costs to be incurred.
B. ABC is another way to refer to a multiple departmental rate situation.
C. There one basic stage to ABC.
D. ABC is simpler and less expensive to implement than other traditional methods of allocating overhead costs.
E. All cost drivers used to determine the rates will be unit-level drivers.
Q:
From an ABC perspective, what causes costs to be incurred?
A. Financial transactions.
B. The volume of units produced.
C. Debits and credits.
D. Management decisions.
E. Activities.
Q:
The cost object(s) of the activity-based costing method is(are):
A. The unit of product.
B. The production departments of the company.
C. The production activities of the company.
D. The production activities in the first stage and the unit of product in the second stage.
E. The unit of product in the first stage and the production activities in the second stage.
Q:
Which of the following statements is true with regard to the departmental overhead rate method?
A. It is logical to use this method when overhead resources are consumed by various products in substantially the same way throughout multiple departments.
B. It is logical to use this method when overhead resources are consumed by various products in substantially different ways throughout multiple departments.
C. Each department has the same rate for the same activity pool.
D. It requires one overhead cost pool and one rate.
E. It is synonymous with activity-based costing.
Q:
The cost object(s) of the departmental overhead rate method is:
A. The unit of product.
B. The production departments of the company.
C. The production departments in the first stage and the unit of product in the second stage.
D. The unit of product in the first stage and the production departments in the second stage.
E. The production activities of the company.
Q:
Which of the following statements is true with regard to the plantwide overhead rate method?
A. The rate is determined using volume-related measures.
B. It is logical to use this method when overhead costs are not closely tied to volume-related measures.
C. This method uses multiple overhead rates.
D. The rate is determined using measures that are not closely related to volume.
E. The method provides the most accurate means of allocating overhead costs.
Q:
The cost object of the plantwide overhead rate method is:
A. The unit of product.
B. The production departments of the company.
C. The production activities of the company.
D. Manufacturing cost pools.
E. the time period.
Q:
Overhead costs:
A. Are directly related to production.
B. Can be traced to units of product in the same way that direct materials can.
C. Cannot be traced to units of product in the same way that direct labor can.
D. Are period costs.
E. Include only fixed costs.
Q:
Which of the following would not be considered a product cost?
A. Direct labor costs.
B. Factory supervisors salary.
C. Factory line workers salary.
D. Cost accountants salary.
E. Manufacturing overhead costs.
Q:
Which types of overhead allocation methods result in the use of more than one overhead rate during the same time period?
A. Plantwide overhead rate method and departmental overhead rate method.
B. Cost pool overhead rate method and plantwide overhead rate method.
C. Departmental overhead rate method and activity-based costing.
D. Activity-based costing and plantwide overhead rate method.
E. Departmental overhead rate method and cost pool overhead rate method.
Q:
A method of assigning overhead costs to a product using a single overhead rate is:
A. Plantwide overhead rate method.
B. Cost pool overhead rate method.
C. Departmental overhead rate method.
D. Activity-based costing.
E. Overhead cost allocation method.
Q:
Facility level costs vary with the number of units or batches produced.
Q:
Product level costs do not vary with the number of units or batches produced.
Q:
The final step of activity-based costing assigns overhead costs to pools rather than to products.
Q:
Activity-based costing often shifts overhead costs from large volume, standardized products to low-volume, specialty products that consume disproportionate resources.
Q:
Facility level costs are not traceable to individual product lines, batches or units.
Q:
Activities causing overhead cost in an organization are typically separated into four levels: (1) direct activities, (2) indirect activities, (3) batch level activities, and (4) facility level activities.
Q:
The more activities tracked by activity-based costing, the more accurately overhead costs are assigned.
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Activity-based costing involves four steps: (1) identify activities and the costs they cause, (2) group similar activities into cost pools, (3) determine an activity rate for each activity cost pool, and (4) allocate overhead costs to products using those activity rates.
Q:
A company produces surgical equipment that goes through threes processes, 1A1, 2B2, and 3C3, before they are complete. Expected costs and activities for the three departments are shown below. All departments have departmental overhead rates based on direct labor hours. Therefore, the overhead rate for each department is $5 per direct labor hour. Department 1A1
Department 2B2
Department 3C3 Machine hours
15,000 MH
25,000 MH
20,000 MH Direct labor hours
22,830 DLH
10,650 DLH
29,200 DLH Overhead costs
$114,150
$213,000
$73,000
Q:
A company produces garden benches that go through two operations, operation 1A1 and operation 2B2, before they are complete. Expected costs and activities for the two departments are shown below. Both departments have departmental overhead rates based on machine hours. Therefore, the overhead rates for department 1A1 and department 2B2 are the same. Department 1A1
Department 2B2 Machine hours
70,000 MH
60,000 MH Direct labor hours
56,350 DLH
50,160 DLH Overhead costs
$225,400
$250,800
Q:
A company produces computer chips that go through two operations, operation A1 and operation B2, before they are complete. Expected costs and activities for the two departments are shown below. Departmental overhead rates are based on machine hours in department A1 and direct labor hours in department B2. Therefore, the overhead rates for department A1 and department B2 are $3.62 per machine hour and $5.73 per direct labor hour, respectively. Department A1
Department B2 Machine hours
40,000 MH
30,000 MH Direct labor hours
36,200 DLH
28,650 DLH Overhead costs
$144,800
$171,900
Q:
A company produces paint that goes through two operations, operation A and operation B, before it is complete. Expected costs and activities for the two departments are shown below. Given this information, the departmental overhead rate for Department B based on machine hours is $4 per machine hour. Department A
Department B Machine hours
50,000 MH
60,000 MH Direct labor hours
78,500 DLH
100,800 DLH Overhead costs
$392,500
$403,200
Q:
A company produces heating elements that go through two operations, casting and assembling, before they are complete. Expected costs and activities for the two departments are shown below. Given this information, the departmental overhead rate for the assembling department based on direct labor hours is $5 per direct labor hour. Casting
Assembling Direct labor hours
1,875 DLH
7,500 DLH Machine hours
12,500 MH
3,750 MH Overhead costs
$75,000
$37,500
Q:
Turtle Company produces t-shirts that go through two operations, cutting and sewing, before they are complete. Expected costs and activities for the two departments are shown below. Given this information, the departmental overhead rate for the cutting department based on direct labor hours is $2.69 per direct labor hour (rounded to two decimals). Cutting
Sewing Direct labor hours
250,000 DLH
75,000 DLH Machine hours
125,000 MH
150,000 MH Overhead costs
$500,000
$375,000
Q:
The departmental overhead rate method traces costs to each department and then determines an allocation base for each department.
Q:
The first step in using the departmental overhead rate method requires that overhead be traced to each of the companys departments.
Q:
If the direct labor time estimates are met, Kudzu will allocate $10.50 of overhead cost to each unit of Little X.
Q:
Kudzus plantwide overhead rate will be $21 per direct labor hour next year.
Q:
Kudzu has 34,000 total estimated direct labor hours for next year.
Q:
A company estimates total overhead costs for the next year to be $1,500,000 and wishes to use direct labor hours as its overhead allocation base. This company makes two products: (1) Fancy X , which requires three direct labor hours per unit, and (2) Plain X, which requires one direct labor hour per unit. If the company plans to make 20,000 units of Fancy X and 20,000 units of Plain X, then each unit produced will be allocated the same amount of overhead.
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Kinetic Company estimates that overhead costs for the next year will be $1,600,000 for indirect labor and $400,000 for factory utilities. The company uses direct labor hours as its overhead allocation base. If 50,000 direct labor hours are planned for this next year, then the plantwide overhead rate is $.025 per direct labor hour.
Q:
When using the plantwide overhead rate method, total budgeted overhead costs are combined into one overhead cost pool.
Q:
ABC is significantly less costly to implement and maintain than more traditional overhead costing systems.
Q:
ABC can be used to assign costs to any cost object that is of management interest.
Q:
ABC allocates overhead costs to products based on input measures rather than output measures .
Q:
The use of a plantwide overhead rate is not acceptable for external reporting under GAAP .
Q:
Because departmental overhead costs are allocated based on measures closely related to production volume, they accurately assign overhead, such as utility costs.
Q:
Compared to the departmental overhead rate method, the plantwide overhead rate method usually results in more accurate overhead allocations.
Q:
Overhead costs are often affected by many issues and are frequently too complex to be explained by any one factor.
Q:
When products differ in batch size and complexity, they usually consume different amounts of overhead resources.
Q:
Some companies allocate their overhead cost using a plantwide overhead rate largely because of its simplicity.
Q:
The usefulness of overhead allocations based on a plantwide overhead rate depends on two crucial assumptions: (1) the overhead cost is correlated with the allocation base; and (2) all products use overhead cost in dissimilar proportions.
Q:
A major disadvantage of using a plantwide overhead rate is the extreme difficulty in gathering the needed information.
Q:
Managements pricing and cost decisions for a product are influenced by that products cost assignments.
Q:
Multiple cost pools are used when allocating overhead using the plantwide overhead rate method.
Q:
Activity-based costing first assigns costs to products and then uses these product costs to assign costs to manufacturing activities.
Q:
A cost pool is a collection of costs that are related to the same or similar activity.
Q:
The premise of ABC is that it takes activities to make products and provide services and these activities drive costs.
Q:
The departmental overhead rate method allows each department to have its own overhead rate and its own allocation base.
Q:
Products are the first stage cost objects when using a departmental overhead rate method.
Q:
By definition, costs classified as overhead are consumed in basically the same manner regardless of the process involved.
Q:
The departmental overhead rate method uses a different overhead rate for each production department.
Q:
Departments are the cost objects when the plantwide overhead rate method is used.
Q:
Examples of volume-related measures include direct labor hours, direct labor cost dollars, and machine hours.
Q:
The cost to heat a manufacturing facility can be directly linked to the number of units produced.
Q:
Product costs consist of direct labor, direct materials, manufacturing overhead, and indirect costs.
Q:
In competitive markets, the price of a given product is established through the forces of supply and demand.
Q:
When products differ in batch size and complexity, they usually consume different amounts of ____________________________.
Answer: overhead resources
183 ____________________________ is an outgrowth of ABC that draws on the link between activities and cost incurrence for better management.
Answer: Activity-based management