Vanguard Combines All Manufacturing Overhead into a Single Cost Pool

question 66

Multiple Choice

Vanguard combines all manufacturing overhead into a single cost pool and allocates this overhead to products by using machine hours. Activity-based costing would likely show that with Vanguard's current procedures:

• A)all of the company's products are undercosted.
• B)the company's high-volume products are undercosted.
• C)all of the company's products are overcosted.
• D)the company's high-volume products are overcosted.
• E)the company's low-volume products are overcosted.

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