In: Accounting
Which of the following costs is the result of a facility-level activity?
- Group of answer choices
- Both utility costs related to heating and lighting a manufacturing facility and the cost of landscaping the grounds for the manufacturing unit are correct
- The cost of landscaping the grounds for the manufacturing unit
- Costs associated with trademarks
- Utility costs related to heating and lighting a manufacturing facility
Tiger Mfg. Company allocates overhead based on direct labor hours. It allocates overhead costs of $12,800 to two different jobs as follows:
Job 1: (10 hours) = $6,400; Job 2: (10 hours) = $6,400
The production process for Job 2 was then automated. Now Job 2 requires only two hours of direct labor but four hours of mechanical processing. As a result, total overhead increases to $17,000. With the change in the production process for Job 2, the amount of overhead assigned to:
- Group of answer choices
- each product will decrease.
- Job 1 will increase.
- each product will increase.
- Job 1 will decrease.