Under what circumstances might the activity-based costing method provide more accurate product costs than the multiple production department factory overhead rate method? Under what circumstances might the activity based costing method

Is it better for a manufacturer to use job order or process costing to determine the cost of goods manufactured?  Why?

When a company implements activity-based costing, manufacturing overhead cost is often shifted from low volume products to high volume products, with a higher unit cost resulting for the high volume products. Please explain (True or False) thoroughly.

Which of the following conditions would favour the use of activity-based costing (ABC) rather than traditional absorption costing? (1) Overheads represent a large proportion of total cost (2) A diverse product range with complex manufacturing operations (3) Overheads are primarily driven by volume of output O 1, 2 and 3 O 2 only O 1 and 3 only O 1 and 2 only