Many traditional costing systems:
A)trace manufacturing overhead to individual activities and require the development of numerous activity-costing rates.
B)write off manufacturing overhead as an expense of the current period.
C)combine widely varying elements of overhead into a single cost pool.
D)use a host of different cost drivers (e.g., number of production setups, inspection hours, orders processed) to improve the accuracy of product
E)produce results far superior to those achieved with activity-based costing.

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Traditional costing systems often combine various overhead costs into a single cost pool and allocate them using a single cost driver, such as direct labor hours or machine hours, which can lead to less accurate product costing compared to activity-based costing.

Many Traditional Costing Systems