How much time employees spend performing each activity


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1.With activity-based costing, the goal is to

  • Develop a product cost that captures the amount of each resource consumed by the activities performed to produce a specific product.
  • Develop a product cost that allocates manufacturing overhead to each resource consumed by the activities performed to a group of similar products.
  • Develop a product cost that eliminates all waste such as machine down time and defective products.
  • None of the above.

2.The main reason for generating new information provided by activity-based costing is

  • To help managers make better decisions.
  • To provide employees in the accounting department with work to do.
  • To calculate variances.
  • None of the above.

3.In an activity-based costing system, which of the following is not a category in which activities are classified?

  • Product-level
  • Operations-level
  • Customer-level
  • Organization-level

4.Activities that are performed all at once on groups of products is classified as a

  • Unit-level activity.
  • Group-level activity.
  • Batch-level activity.
  • None of the above

5.Identifying activities performed in the organization is the first step in developing activity-based product costs. Which of the following is a way to identify these activities?

  • Asking employees what they do
  • Analyzing industry averages
  • Both a and b
  • Neither a nor b

6.Which of the following is a reason that employees must estimate how much time employees spend performing each activity?

  • So that the budget committee will know how to allocate direct material
  • So that the resources consumed by the activities can be calculated
  • So that the level of detail will not become too burdensome
  • None of the above

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