(c) Which of the following statements are true? (You may select more than one answer. Single click the box with the question mark to produce a check mark for a correct answer and double click the box with the question mark to empty the box for a wrong answer. Any boxes left with a question mark will be automatically graded as incorrect.)
First let us understand what is traditional costing method and what is activity based costing method. Both of these are methods to allocation of overheads to the cost of production. As we know that direct costs are directly identifiable with every unit produced. But the indirect cost i.e overheads are the general total costs which are to be allocated taking some logical base.
The traditional costing method uses only one cost driver for the allocation of overhead costs whereas the ABC method uses various cost drivers. Like under traditional costing the total overhead costs are applied based on machine hours or labour hours for each product. Under traditional costing the various overhead costs are allocated based on identified cost drivers like
- The production overhead can be allocated based on number of machine setups
- The material overhead can be allocated based on raw material requisition
- The assembly overhead cost can be allocated based on the direct labour hours
- Customer handling costs can be allocated based on the number of customer orders.
- Inspecting costs can be divided based on inspection hours
- Customer service cost can be divided based on the customers served.
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