Viger corporation has a standard cost system in which it applies manufacturing overhead to products on the basis of standard machine-hours (mhs). the company has provided the following data for the most recent month: budgeted level of activity 8,900 mhs actual level of activity 9,100 mhs standard variable manufacturing overhead rate $ 7.60 per mh actual total variable manufacturing overhead $ 66,600 what was the variable overhead rate variance for the month?

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Reagan corporation is a wholesale distributor of truck replacement parts. initial amounts taken from reagan's records are as follows:

Activity-based costing (abc) is not truly a cost collection mechanism as much as it is an inventory valuation method. the main purpose for implementing an activity-based cost system is to try to overcome some of the cost distortions that occur in traditional costing from product differences when there are variations in size and complexity. however, one of the disadvantages of utilizing abc is that the additional information gathering necessary to implement costing with that level of detail might be beyond the reach of some companies with resource or financial constraints. with this in mind, what kinds of industries or companies do you think would benefit most from using activity-based costing and why? in designing or modifying an accounting system to capture appropriate costs for abc, what considerations do you think would need to be made?