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26. What is the normal effect on the numbers of cost pools and allocation bases when an activity-based cost (ABC) system replaces a traditional cost system? 27. In an activity-based costing system, what should be used to assign a department's manufacturing overhead costs to products produced in varying lot sizes? 28. Gram Co. develops computer programs to meet customers' special requirements. How should Gram categorize payments to employees who develop these programs? 29. Where one part of an organization provides an essential business process where previously it had been provided by multiple parts of that same organization, this is called 30. Which of the following items often provides a significant risk with off-shore operations? 31. A manufacturing company has several product lines. Traditionally, it has allocated manufacturing overhead costs between product lines based on total machine hours for each product line. Under a new activity-based costing system, which of the following overhead costs would be most likely to have a new cost driver assigned to it? 32. Nile Co.'s cost allocation and product costing procedures follow activity-based costing principles. Activities have been identified and classified as being either value-adding or nonvalue- adding as to each product. Which of the following activities, used in Nile's production process, is nonvalue-adding? 33. Which of the following items is a process management approach that involves radical change? 34. In an income statement prepared as an internal report using the direct (variable) costing method, fixed selling and administrative expenses would 35. The absorption costing method includes in work in process and finished goods inventories: 36. In an income statement prepared as an internal report using the direct (variable) costing method, fixed selling and administrative expenses would