Vontungeln Corporation Uses Activity-Based Costing to Compute Product Margins

question 55

Multiple Choice

Vontungeln Corporation uses activity-based costing to compute product margins.In the first stage, the activity-based costing system allocates two overhead accounts-equipment depreciation and supervisory expense-to three activity cost pools-Machining, Order Filling, and Other-based on resource consumption.Data to perform these allocations appear below: In the second stage, Machining costs are assigned to products using machine-hours (MHs) and Order Filling costs are assigned to products using the number of orders.The costs in the Other activity cost pool are not assigned to products. Finally, sales and direct cost data are combined with Machining and Order Filling costs to determine product margins. What is the overhead cost assigned to Product I6 under activity-based costing?

• A)$11, 760
• B)$24, 072
• C)$34, 000
• D)$12, 312

---

Definitions:

Sophisticated

Reflecting a high degree of complexity, refinement, or development, often in technology, art, tastes, or mannerisms.

Combine Sentences

The process of joining two or more sentences into one, often to improve clarity and flow.

Stand Alone

Refers to something that is complete in itself and does not require support or association with other things to function or be understood.

Clustering

A process or method of grouping a set of objects or points in such a way that objects in the same group are more similar to each other than to those in other groups.