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A manufacturing company is considering implementing activity-based costing. Which one of the following statements is a valid consideration when making this change?

• A. An activity-based costing system is more costly to maintain than a traditional costing system
• B. Companies that make diverse products are least likely to benefit from activity based costing
• C. In an activity-based costing system, all costs including idle capacity costs, are allocated to products, customers and other costing objects
• D. Activity-based costing systems may not replace traditional costing systems used for prepar.ng external financial statements.

Hill Corporation sola some of its accounts receivable including one from Custom Company, to Dale incorporated without recourse, Because of this transaction.

• A. Custom Company has no recourse against Hill Corporation
• B. Dale incorporated has no recourse against mil Corporation
• C. Hill Corporation has no recourse against Dale Incorporated
• D. Custom Company has no recourse against Dale incorporated

Identity two internal factors that enable the Food-To-Go division to have competitive advantages over Its competitors.
Essay
Food Depot Ltd (FDD is a privately-held company that provides catering services to airlines and operates several restaurant chains including fast food, casual dining, and fine dining restaurants FDL has been profitable m recent years and has a very strong cash position FDL's newest division. Food-To-Go. is an online meal ordering and delivery platform acquired by FDL two years ago.
In 20X7. sales for the entire company were SI billion, with 50% of the business coming from the Airline Catering division. FDL is the country's leading airline catering services provider and controls 60% of the market share. However, the outlook of the airline catering industry is gloomy. The compound annual growth rate of the industry for the past five years was only 0.5% as airline networks have increasingly dropped catering on short domestic flights.
The Food-To-Go division only contributed 5% of FDL's total sales in 20X7 and is far behind in competing for market share of the online meal ordering and deliver, industry. It is estimated that Food-To-Go's sales were only 20% of the industry leader's sales However, the outlook for the online meal ordering and delivery services industry is bright. The compound annual growth rate of the industry since it started three years ago was 50%. It is estimated the rapid growth of the industry will continue in the foreseeable future.
The costs of shared corporate services are allocated based on each division s revenue FDL usually caps its capital expenditure budget to 4% of budgeted sales revenue In a recent capital budget coordination meeting.
Smith Whitney, the head of the Airline Catering division. complained that his division is underfunded on capital projects . The budgeted capital expenditure had been much less than 4 % of the division's budgeted sales in the past three years He argued that his division is the company's best-performing division, and it needs more funds to maintain its market share m the industry Whitney wants to reduce the capital expenditure budget for Food-To-Go and reallocate those funds to his division.
Susan Wiley, the bead of Food-To-Go, does not agree that the Airline Catering division is the best-performing division in the company Wiley argues that her division had the highest ROI in 20X7. and it deserves more capital funding FDL's required rate of return is 12%. The selected financial data for the Airline Catering division and Food-To-Go division in 20X7 are as follows (in $ millions).

Which one of the following is the least important for a successful budget process?

• A. Integrated budget software
• B. Top management support
• C. The level of participation in the budget process
• D. The degree of alignment between the budget and other performance goals

Ingle Inc. has adopted a quality management program that considers all defects as avoidable and unnecessary The goal of this program is to have zero defects ingle uses a process costing system and has recognized the cost of normal and abnormal spoilage on its financial statements How will the new quality management program affect the accounting for normal and abnormal spoilage?

• A. All spoilage will be assigned to ending finished goods inventory
• B. There will be no effect
• C. All spoilage will be recognized as normal spoilage
• D. All spoilage will be recognized as abnormal spoilage