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  • A. First incremental user
  • B. primary user
  • C. secondary user
  • D. second incremental user

Explanation: The ranking sequence is primary user first, first incremental user second, and second incremental user third.

Correct answer: second incremental user
  • A. primary product
  • B. First incremental product
  • C. Second incremental product
  • D. Third incremental product

Explanation: The product ranked first in the incremental revenue allocation method is the primary product.

Correct answer: primary product
  • A. sales mix allocation method
  • B. dual-rate cost-allocation method
  • C. single rate cost allocation method
  • D. quantity variance allocation methodCompare Credit Cards

Explanation: The dual-rate cost-allocation method creates separate fixed-cost and variable-cost pools, applying an appropriate rate to each.

Correct answer: dual-rate cost-allocation method
  • A. selling prices as weights
  • B. unit costs as weights
  • C. physical units as weights
  • D. all of above

Explanation: The stand-alone method can use several measures of each user's independent share, including selling price, unit cost, or physical units.

Correct answer: all of above
  • A. complete reciprocal costs
  • B. artificial costs
  • C. operating costs
  • D. flexible operating costs

Explanation: Complete reciprocal costs include the support department's own costs together with costs allocated from other departments, including…

Correct answer: complete reciprocal costs
  • A. bundled cost
  • B. common cost
  • C. stand-alone cost
  • D. incremental costTrack Stock Earnings

Explanation: A common cost arises from a facility, activity, or resource used by two or more users, so it must be allocated among them.

Correct answer: common cost
  • A. revenue increment
  • B. reciprocal revenue
  • C. revenue allocation
  • D. revenue object

Explanation: A revenue object is the product, division, customer, or other unit for which revenue is measured or allocated.

Correct answer: revenue object
  • A. bundled products allocation method
  • B. variable cost allocation method
  • C. stand-alone cost allocation method
  • D. incremental cost allocation method

Explanation: The incremental cost allocation method ranks users by responsibility for the cost and allocates it in that order.

Correct answer: incremental cost allocation method
  • A. bundled products allocation method
  • B. variable cost allocation method
  • C. stand-alone cost allocation method
  • D. incremental cost allocation method

Explanation: The stand-alone cost allocation method treats each user as a separate entity and uses that user's independent cost to determine the…

Correct answer: stand-alone cost allocation method
  • A. $2,078,000
  • B. $3,078,000
  • C. $2,065,000
  • D. $3,065,000

Explanation: Under the figures given, the dual-rate calculation is 8,500 × $120 plus 9,500 × $110, giving $1,020,000 + $1,045,000 = $2,065,000.

Correct answer: $2,065,000
  • A. indirect method
  • B. direct method
  • C. step down method
  • D. reciprocal method

Explanation: The direct method allocates each support department's cost only to operating departments and ignores services exchanged among support…

Correct answer: direct method
  • A. primary product
  • B. First incremental product
  • C. Second incremental product
  • D. Third incremental product

Explanation: In incremental allocation, the highest-ranked product is the primary product, so the second-ranked product is the first incremental…

Correct answer: First incremental product
  • A. step down product
  • B. dual mix product
  • C. bundled product
  • D. reciprocal product

Explanation: A bundled product combines two or more separately identifiable products and sells them for one combined price.

Correct answer: bundled product
  • A. step down allocation method
  • B. stand-alone revenue allocation method
  • C. incremental revenue allocation method
  • D. revenue mix allocation methodAccess Government Careers

Explanation: The incremental revenue allocation method ranks bundled products using management’s predetermined order and allocates revenue…

Correct answer: incremental revenue allocation method
  • A. production department
  • B. operating department
  • C. allocation base department
  • D. both a and b

Explanation: A production department directly works on the product, while an operating department is the broader term for a department involved in the…

Correct answer: both a and b
  • A. supply department
  • B. support department
  • C. production department
  • D. allocation base department

Explanation: A support department serves other internal departments rather than directly manufacturing the main product or delivering the main service.

Correct answer: support department
  • A. relevant
  • B. bunk
  • C. dispose value
  • D. sunk

Explanation: The cost of a machine that will be acquired in the future is a relevant cost because it changes depending on the decision being…

Correct answer: relevant
  • A. outsourcing
  • B. insourcing
  • C. idle sourcing
  • D. sunk sourcing

Explanation: Outsourcing means obtaining goods or services from an external supplier instead of producing or obtaining them internally.

Correct answer: outsourcing
  • A. parallel revenues
  • B. abnormal revenues
  • C. expected future revenues
  • D. serial revenuesHire An Accountant

Explanation: Relevant revenue must relate to future outcomes and differ between the alternatives under consideration.

Correct answer: expected future revenues
  • A. sunk costs
  • B. bunked costs
  • C. unrecorded costs
  • D. recorded costsHire An Accountant

Explanation: A sunk cost cannot be recovered or changed by a current decision, so it remains the same regardless of the selected alternative.

Correct answer: sunk costs