Use the Following Information for the Next 4 Questions

question 130

Multiple Choice

Use the following information for the next 4 questions.
Tong, Inc. is a manufacturing company that uses a process costing system. All direct material is added at the start of the process, and spoilage is discovered at the end. During the first period of operations 15,000 units of material were placed into production at a cost of $20 each (ignore conversion costs for this process) . Ending work in process was 2,000 units, good units completed totaled 11,000 units, and normal spoilage is 15% of the units surviving inspection. Inspection takes place after the units are completed.
-The unit cost assigned to the normal spoilage is

• A) $-0-
• B) $22.61
• C) $20.00
• D) $24.00

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Definitions:

Cost Pool

A grouping of individual costs, typically by department or service center, from which cost allocations are made.

Departmental Overhead Rate

This is a method of allocating overhead costs to specific departments based on their respective proportions of an allocation base, such as machine hours or labor hours.

Activity-based Costing

A costing method that assigns overhead and indirect costs to specific activities, providing a more accurate product cost.

Overhead Cost Allocation

The process of distributing indirect costs to various cost objects like products, projects, or departments.