1. Why is direct labor a poor base for allocating overhead in 2. What types of costs should not be assigned to products in an 3. Why are there two stages of allocation in activity-based 4. When activity-based costing is used, why do manufacturing many companies? activity-based costing system? costing? overhead costs often shift from high-volume products to low- volume products? 5. Why is the activity-based costing described in this chapter unacceptable for external financial reports