ACC 560 Week 4 Quiz – Strayer NEW
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Week 4 Quiz 3: Chapter 4
TRUE-FALSE STATEMENTS
1. Traditional costing systems use multiple predetermined overhead
rates.
Ans:, LO: 1, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
2. Traditionally, overhead is allocated based on direct labor cost
or direct labor hours.
Ans:, LO: 1, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
3. Current trends in manufacturing include less direct labor and
more overhead.
Ans:, LO: 1, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
4. Activity-based costing allocates overhead to multiple cost pools
and assigns the cost pools to products using cost drivers.
Ans:, LO: 1, Bloom: C,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
5. A cost driver does not
generally have a direct cause-effect relationship with the resources consumed.
Ans:, LO: 1, Bloom: C,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
6. The first step in activity-based costing is to assign overhead
costs to products, using cost drivers.
Ans:, LO: 2, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
7. To achieve accurate costing, a high degree of correlation must
exist between the cost driver and the actual consumption of the activity cost
pool.
Ans:, LO: 4, Bloom: C,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
8. Low-volume products often require more special handling than
high-volume products.
Ans:, LO: 4, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
9. When overhead is properly assigned in ABC, it will usually
decrease the unit cost of high-volume products.
Ans:, LO: 4, Bloom: C,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
10. ABC leads to enhanced control over overhead costs.
Ans:, LO: 5, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
11. ABC usually results in less appropriate management decisions.
Ans:, LO: 5, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
12. ABC is generally more costly to implement than traditional
costing.
Ans:, LO: 5, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
13. ABC eliminates all arbitrary cost allocations.
Ans:, LO: 5, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
14. ABC is particularly useful when product lines differ greatly in
volume and manufacturing complexity.
Ans:, LO: 5, Bloom: C,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
15. ABC is particularly useful when overhead costs are an
insignificant portion of total costs.
Ans:, LO: 5, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
16. Activity-based management focuses on reducing costs and
improving processes.
Ans:, LO: 6, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
17. Any activity that increases the cost of producing a product is a
value-added activity.
Ans:, LO: 6, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
18. Engineering design is a value-added activity.
Ans:, LO: 6, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
19. Non-value-added activities increase the cost of a product but
not its perceived value.
Ans:, LO: 6, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
20. Machining is a non-value-added activity.
Ans:, LO: 6, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
21. Not all activities labeled non-value-added are totally wasteful,
nor can they be totally eliminated.
Ans:, LO: 6, Bloom: C,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
22. The overall objective of installing ABC in service firms is no
different than it is in a manufacturing company.
Ans:, LO: 8, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
23. What sometimes makes implementation of activity-based costing
difficult in service industries is that a smaller proportion of overhead costs
are company-wide costs.
Ans:, LO: 8, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
24. The general approach to identifying activities, activity cost
pools, and cost drivers is used by a service company in the same manner as a
manufacturing company.
Ans:, LO: 8, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
25. Plant management is a batch-level activity.
Ans:, LO: 7, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
26. Painting is a product-level activity.
Ans:, LO: 7, Bloom: K, Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA
BB: Industry/Sector Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem
Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
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