72 Why is direct labor a poor base for allocating overhead in many companies?

73 Why are top management support and cross-functional involvement crucial when

attempting to implement an activity-based costing system?

74 What are unit-level, batch-level, product-level, customer-level, and organization-sustaining

activities?

75 What types of costs should not be assigned to products in an activity-based costing

system?

77 Why is the first stage of the allocation process in activity-based costing often based on

interviews?

710 Why is the form of activity-based costing described in this chapter unacceptable for external financial reports?