Q17.1: is not considered a step in activity-based costing. a. allocating overhead costs to activity cost pools b. identifying a single overhead rate as the predetermined overhead rate c. identifying and classifying the major activities involved in the manufacture of specific products d. assigning overhead allocated to the activity cost pools to products using cost drivers

Caleb construction (cc) incurs supervisor salaries expense in the construction of homes. if cc manufactures 100 homes in a year, fixed supervisor salaries will be $400,000. with the current construction supervisors, cc's productive capacity is 150 homes in a year. however, if cc is contracts to build more than 150 homes per year, it will need to hire additional supervisors, which are hired as full-time rather than temporary employees. cc's productive capacity would then become 200 homes per year, and salaries expense would increase to $470,000. how would cc’s salaries expense be properly classified? fixed variable mixed stepped curvilinear