Traughber Corporation Uses an Activity Based Costing System to Assign

question 18

Multiple Choice

Traughber Corporation uses an activity based costing system to assign overhead costs to products. In the first stage, two overhead costs-equipment expense and indirect labor-are allocated to the three activity cost pools-Processing, Supervising, and Other-based on resource consumption. Data to perform these allocations appear below: In the second stage, Processing costs are assigned to products using machine-hours (MHs) and Supervising costs are assigned to products using the number of batches. The costs in the Other activity cost pool are not assigned to products. Activity data for the company's two products follow:
-The activity rate for the Processing activity cost pool under activity-based costing is closest to:

• A)$3.08 per MH
• B)$7.80 per MH
• C)$3.10 per MH
• D)$0.50 per MH

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Definitions:

Coupon Rate

The interest rate stated on a bond when it's issued, which represents the annual interest payment made to bondholders.

Modified Duration

A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a bond or other debt instrument to changes in interest rates, adjusted for the bond's yield.

Perpetuity

A type of annuity that pays an infinite series of cash flows, with no end date.

Duration

Duration measures a bond's sensitivity to interest rate changes, representing the weighted average time until a bond's cash flows are paid to the investor.