The First Step in Activity-Based Costing Is to

question 38

Multiple Choice

The first step in activity-based costing is to

• A) assign overhead costs to products, using overhead rates determined for each cost pool.
• B) compute the activity-based overhead rate per cost driver.
• C) identify and classify the activities involved in the manufacture of specific products, and allocate overhead to cost pools.
• D) identify the cost driver that has a strong correlation to the activity cost pool.

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