Many Traditional Costing Systems

question 82

Multiple Choice

Many traditional costing systems:

• A) trace manufacturing overhead to individual activities and require the development of numerous activity-costing rates.
• B) write off manufacturing overhead as an expense of the current period.
• C) combine widely varying elements of overhead into a single cost pool.
• D) use a host of different cost drivers (e.g., number of production setups, inspection hours, orders processed) to improve the accuracy of product costing.
• E) produce results far superior to those achieved with activity-based costing.

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