The accounts department investigates all applications from new customers for cre sales. It has incurred a cost of £2,500 in January to investigate 100 customer applications. The accounts department has apportioned the cost as £1,250 each to divisions A and B because each has the same level of sales. The manager of division A has claimed that this is unfair because she only asked for 20 investigations while division B asked for 80 investigations. Which of the following statements is/are correct? (i) Activity-based costing would charge £500 to division A and £2,000 to division B. • (ii) Activity-based costing forecasts that the customer investigation costs for COO
The accounts department investigates all applications from new customers for cre sales. It has incurred a cost of £2,500 in January to investigate 100 customer applications. The accounts department has apportioned the cost as £1,250 each to divisions A and B because each has the same level of sales. The manager of division A has claimed that this is unfair because she only asked for 20 investigations while division B asked for 80 investigations. Which of the following statements is/are correct? (i) Activity-based costing would charge £500 to division A and £2,000 to division B. • (ii) Activity-based costing forecasts that the customer investigation costs for COO
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Transcribed Image Text:The accounts department investigates all applications from new customers for credit
sales. It has incurred a cost of £2,500 in January to investigate 100 customer
applications. The accounts department has apportioned the cost as £1,250 each to
divisions A and B because each has the same level of sales. The manager of division
A has claimed that this is unfair because she only asked for 20 investigations while
division B asked for 80 investigations. Which of the following statements is/are
correct?
• (i) Activity-based costing would charge £500 to division A and £2,000 to
division B.
●
(ii) Activity-based costing forecasts that the customer investigation costs for
February will be £500 for division A and £2,000 for division B.
(iii) Activity-based costing makes managers more aware of the costs incurred
by their operations.
●
a) (i) and (iii) only
b) (i) and (ii) only
c) (i), (ii) and (iii)
d) (ii) and (iii) only
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