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<strong>ACC</strong> <strong>604</strong> <strong>Homework</strong> <strong>Chapter</strong> 6<br />

(<strong>National</strong> <strong>University</strong>)<br />

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<strong>Chapter</strong> Six:<br />

1. In what fundamental ways does activity-based costing differ from traditional costing methods such<br />

as job-order costing as described in <strong>Chapter</strong> 4?<br />

2. Why is direct labor a poor base for allocating overhead in many companies?<br />

3. Why are top management support and cross-functional involvement crucial when attempting to<br />

implement an activity-based costing system?<br />

4. What are unit-level, batch-level, product-level, customer-level, and organization sustaining activities?<br />

5. What types of costs should not be assigned to products in an activity-based costing system?<br />

6. Why are there two stages of allocation in activity-based costing?<br />

7. Why is the first stage of the allocation process in activity-based costing often based on interviews?<br />

8. When activity-based costing is used, why do manufacturing overhead costs often shift from high<br />

volume products to low-volume products?<br />

9. How can the activity rates (i.e., cost per activity) for the various activities be used to target process<br />

improvements?<br />

10. Why is activity-based costing, described in this chapter, is unacceptable for external financial<br />

reports?

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