The Other Activity Cost Pool Is Used to Accumulate Costs

question 58

Multiple Choice

The Other activity cost pool is used to accumulate costs of idle capacity and organization-sustaining costs.
The company has provided the following data concerning its costs: The distribution of resource consumption across activity cost pools is given below: The activity rate for the Order Processing activity cost pool is closest to:
A.$1,050 per order
B.$1,680 per order
C.$1,190 per order
<underLine>D.</underLine> $1,350 per order
Total Order Processing Cost:
-Vanfleet Corporation uses an activity-based costing system with three activity cost pools.The company has provided the following data concerning its costs: The distribution of resource consumption across the three activity cost pools is given below: How much cost,in total,would be allocated in the first-stage allocation to the Fabricating activity cost pool?

• A)$120,000
• B)$216,000
• C)$161,000
• D)$108,000

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Definitions:

Marginal Benefit

The additional satisfaction or utility that a person receives from consuming an additional unit of a good or service.

Marginal External Damages

Additional harm or cost imposed on society or a third party that is not accounted for by the producer or consumer of a good or service.

Marginal Social Cost

The total cost to society of producing an additional unit of a good or service, including both the cost to the producer and the cost to society of any environmental or other externalities.

Monopoly

Market with only one seller.