The First Step in Activity-Based Costing Is to

question 45

Multiple Choice

The first step in activity-based costing is to

• A)assign manufacturing overhead costs for each activity cost pool to products.
• B)calculate the activity-based overhead rate per cost driver.
• C)identify and classify the major activities involved in the manufacture of specific products.
• D)identify the cost driver that has a strong correlation to the activity cost pool.

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