Munar Corporation Uses Activity-Based Costing to Compute Product Margins

question 37

Multiple Choice

Munar Corporation uses activity-based costing to compute product margins.Overhead costs have already been allocated to the company's three activity cost pools-Machining, Order Filling, and Other.The costs in those activity cost pools appear below: 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.Activity data appear below: Finally, sales and direct cost data are combined with Machining and Order Filling costs to determine product margins. What is the product margin for Product X6 under activity-based costing?

• A)$22, 400
• B)$3, 572
• C)$29, 700
• D)$17, 302

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Definitions:

Return On Equity

A measure of a corporation's profitability, indicating how much profit is generated with the money shareholders have invested.

Return On Assets Ratio

A financial metric used to evaluate a company's efficiency in generating profits from its assets, calculated by dividing net income by total assets.

Debt And Equity Financing

Ways in which a company raises funds through borrowing (debt) or selling ownership shares (equity).

ROE

Return on Equity, a measure of financial performance calculated by dividing net income by shareholder's equity.