Chapter 10: Accounting Systems for Manufacturing Businesses
110. Which of the following techniques is used by just-in-time manufacturing?
a. It provides specialized training so that employees only do one task and work individually to
improve efficiencies in the department.
b. It organizes the plant in such a way as to reduce product movement from station to station.
c. It encourages management to make all operating decisions regarding the manufacturing
process rather than the line employees in order to streamline the process.
d. It emphasizes push manufacturing.
111. Pull manufacturing is driven by:
a. customer demand.
b. forecasting customers’ requirements.
c. a production schedule rather than line status.
d. pushing inventory ahead to the next station.
112. Just-in-time manufacturing practices include all of the following except:
a. eliminating defective or poor-quality products.
b. partnering with suppliers to provide high-quality, low-cost, and on-time materials.
c. emphasizing push manufacturing to ensure inventory levels that will provide a buffer
against production problems.
d. employee involvement using teams organized in product cells.
113. An activity-based costing system allocates factory overhead rates to products or services
using:
a. a single plantwide overhead rate.
b. the cost of activities based on an activity rate times the number of activity-based usage
quantities.
c. an allocation of budgeted revenues produced by a product or service.
d. an end-of-year allocation of costs to products or services.
114. Heedy Winery accumulates the costs incurred in the labeling process in an activity cost pool.
Costs for the labeling process are estimated to be $320,000, and the winery expects to generate
640,000 labels for the coming year. Production for its top-selling wine is estimated at 160,000
bottles. How much overhead from the labeling process will be allocated to this particular
variety of wine?
a. $40,000
b. $80,000
c. $160,000
d. $320,000