Refer to the Information in Figure 16

question 193

Multiple Choice

Refer to the information in Figure 16.5 below to answer the question(s) that follow. Figure 16.5
Figure 16.5 shows the marginal benefits of emitting pollution for the only two chemical companies in an industry, Alpha Chemicals and Beta Chemicals. Before any tax on pollution emissions is imposed, each company views pollution as being free.
-Refer to Figure 16.5. The government decides to impose a tax on pollution emissions to cut total emissions in this industry in half, and based on this decision it has set the tax at $100 per ton of emissions. For Alpha, the tax is ________ than the marginal benefit it gets from polluting, and for Beta, the tax is ________ than the marginal benefit it gets from polluting.

• A) higher; higher
• B) higher; lower
• C) lower; higher
• D) lower; lower

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Definitions:

Standard Cost Variances

The differences between the expected standard costs of manufacturing a product and the actual costs incurred.

Work in Process Inventories

Partially completed goods that are still undergoing the production process.

Standard Fixed Manufacturing Overhead Rate

This refers to the predetermined rate at which fixed manufacturing overhead costs are allocated to units of production, based on an expected level of activity.

Work in Process

Goods in various stages of production, not yet completed but not as raw materials, within a manufacturing process.