Use these true or false questions to ensure you understand the difference between traditional absorption costing and activity based costing. This exercise should be completed after reading up to page 280 of Chapter 8. Show
How does activityOverhead costs are allocated to products by multiplying the predetermined overhead rate for each activity (calculated in step 4) by the level of cost driver activity used by the product. The term applied overhead is often used to describe this process.
What is are used in activity based absorption?Absorption costing assigns costs to individual units, whereas activity-based costing focuses on company activities as a central cost and then attempts to assign indirect costs to units.
How does absorption costing assign overhead?Absorption costing allocates fixed overhead costs to a product whether or not it was sold in the period. This type of costing method means that more cost is included in the ending inventory, which is carried over into the next period as an asset on the balance sheet.
How do you assign overhead costs to each product?To allocate the overhead costs, you first need to calculate the overhead allocation rate. This is done by dividing total overhead by the number of direct labor hours. This means for every hour needed to make a product, you need to allocate $3.33 worth of overhead to that product.
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