Question : 11. Barr Company makes steel and titanium handle bars for bicycles. : 1208216

 

11. Barr Company makes steel and titanium handle bars for bicycles. It requires approximately 1 hour of labor to make one handle bar of either type. During the most recent accounting period, Barr Company made 7,000 steel bars and 3,000 titanium bars. Setup costs amounted to $42,000. One batch of each type of bar was run each month. If a single company-wide overhead rate based on direct labor hours is used to allocate overhead costs to the two products, the amount of setup cost assigned to the steel bars will be: 
A. $4,200.
B. $12,600.
C. $29,400.
D. $42,000.

12. In the early days of the industrial revolution, indirect manufacturing costs: 
A. Were highly correlated with the use of labor.
B. Were relatively large compared to the direct costs of producing a product.
C. Were a significant cost of producing most products.
D. All of the other answers are correct.

13. Traditionally, the most popular company-wide base for allocating overhead to products was: 
A. Machine hours.
B. Number of units sold.
C. Number of units produced.
D. Direct labor hours or costs.

14. What is the principal reason that direct labor hours is no longer an effective base for allocating indirect costs in many modern manufacturing companies? 
A. U.S. labor laws
B. Workers are not as productive as they were in the past
C. Automation
D. Changes in generally accepted accounting principles

15. Which of the following costs is likely to be driven by direct labor usage? 
A. Factory utilities
B. Depreciation of factory building
C. Factory insurance
D. Factory rent

16. Which type of cost drivers is most appropriate for most automated processes? 
A. Activity-based drivers
B. Volume-based drivers
C. Direct labor-based drivers
D. All of the other answers are correct.

17. Which of the following allocation bases for automation costs would be an improvement over direct labor hours? 
A. Machine hours
B. Direct labor costs
C. Number of units sold
D. None of the other answers are correct.

18. Mayer Company allocates overhead on the basis of direct labor hours. It allocates overhead costs of $6,400 to two different jobs as follows:
Job 1: (10 hours) = $3,200 Job 2: (10 hours) = $3,200
The production process for Job 1 was then automated. Now Job 1 requires only two hours of direct labor but four hours of mechanical processing. As a result, total overhead increases to $8,500. With the change in the production process for Job 1: 
A. The amount of overhead assigned to each product will increase.
B. The amount of overhead assigned to Job 2 will increase.
C. The amount of overhead assigned to each product will decrease.
D. The amount of overhead assigned to Job 1 will increase.

19. Kyoto Company allocates overhead on the basis of direct labor hours. It allocates overhead costs of $4,000 to two different jobs as follows:
Job 1: (10 hours) = $2,000 Job 2: (10 hours) = $2,000
The production process for Job 1 was then automated. Now Job 1 requires only two hours of direct labor but four hours of mechanical processing. As a result, total overhead increased to $6,000. How much overhead cost will be assigned to Job 2 after automation? 
A. $1,000
B. $2,000
C. $3,000
D. $5,000

20. Hammond Company allocates overhead on the basis of direct labor hours. It allocates overhead costs of $4,000 to two different jobs as follows:
Job 1: (10 hours) = $2,000 Job 2: (10 hours) = $2,000
The production process for Job 1 was then automated. Now Job 1 requires only two hours of direct labor but four hours of mechanical processing. As a result, total overhead increases to $6,000. Select the incorrect statement from the following. 
A. While the actual processing of Job 2 was not affected by automation, it received an increase of $3,000 in its overhead allocation.
B. The increased overhead costs associated with automation should be allocated to both jobs.
C. Automation and the costing system used by the company causes the cost of Job 2 to be significantly overstated.
D. The use of machine hours as the allocation base would significantly improve the overhead cost allocations.

 

 

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