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
a27. Just-in-time
strives to eliminate inventories by using a pull approach.
Ans:, LO: 9, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
a28. Quality control is less important in
just-in-time than in traditional manufacturing philosophies.
Ans:, LO: 9, Bloom: C,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
a29. Inventory storage costs are reduced in
just-in-time processing.
Ans:, LO: 9, Bloom: K, Difficulty:
Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector Perspective, AICPA
FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
a30. Rework costs typically increase in
just-in-time processing.
Ans:, LO: 9, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 1, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
MULTIPLE
CHOICE QUESTIONS
31. Which of the following is not
typical of traditional costing systems?
a. Use of a single predetermined overhead rate.
b. Use of direct labor hours or direct labor
cost to assign overhead.
c. Assumption of correlation between direct
labor and incurrence of overhead cost.
d. Use of multiple cost drivers to allocate
overhead.
Ans:, LO: 1, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 2, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
32. In traditional costing systems, overhead is generally applied
based on
a. direct labor.
b. machine hours.
c. direct material dollars.
d. units of production.
Ans:, LO: 1, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 2, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
33. An activity that has a direct cause-effect relationship with the
resources consumed is a(n)
a. cost driver.
b. overhead rate.
c. cost pool.
d. product activity.
Ans:, LO: 1, Bloom: K,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 2, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
34. Which best describes the flow of overhead costs in an
activity-based costing system?
a. Overhead costs direct labor cost or hours
products
b. Overhead costs products
c. Overhead costs activity cost pools cost
drivers products
d. Overhead costs machine hours products
Ans:, LO: 1, Bloom: C,
Difficulty: Easy, Min: 2, AACSB: Reflective, AICPA BB: Industry/Sector
Perspective, AICPA FN: Measurement, AICPA PC: Problem Solving, IMA: Cost Mgmt
35. The costs that are easiest to trace directly to products are
a. direct materials and direct labor.
b. direct labor and overhead.
c. direct materials and overhead.
d. none of the above; all three costs are
equally easy to trace to the product.
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