Groch Corporation Uses Activity-Based Costing to Compute Product Margins

question 70

Multiple Choice

Groch Corporation uses activity-based costing to compute product margins. Overhead costs have already been allocated to the company's three activity cost pools-Processing, Supervising, and Other. The costs in those activity cost pools appear below: 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 appear below: Finally, sales and direct cost data are combined with Processing and Supervising costs to determine product margins.
-What is the overhead cost assigned to Product Q9 under activity-based costing?

• A)$14,892
• B)$28,500
• C)$5,415
• D)$20,307

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Definitions:

Budgeting

The process of creating a plan to spend your money, which involves estimating revenues and expenses over a specified future period.

Fixed Costs

Costs that do not change with the level of output or sales in the short term.

Machine-hours

A measure of production volume or capacity, representing the total hours that machines are operational within a given period.

Power Costs

The expenses associated with the consumption of electricity or other forms of energy used in the production process.