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Vanguilder combines all manufacturing overhead into a single cost pool and allocates this overhead to products by using machine hours

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Vanguilder combines all manufacturing overhead into a single cost pool and allocates this overhead to products by using machine hours. Activity-based costing would likely show that with Vanguard's current procedures that:

   

all of the company's products are undercosted.

   

the company's high-volume products are undercosted.

   

all of the company's products are overcosted.

   

the company's high-volume products are overcosted.

   

the company's low-volume products are overcosted.

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Activity-based costing would likely show that the company's high-volume products are overcosted.
The high-volume products requiring more machine hours would be overcosted under current approach.
Option D the company's high-volume products are overcosted is correct