Through ______________,Wholesalers Are Able to Select Items and Build the Assortments

question 142

Multiple Choice

Through ______________,wholesalers are able to select items and build the assortments their customers need,saving the customers considerable work.

• A)selling and promoting
• B)buying and assortment building
• C)warehousing
• D)risk bearing
• E)transportation

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Definitions:

Overhead Rates

The method used to allocate indirect costs, such as utilities or rent, to products or services based on predetermined criteria, often as a rate per unit of activity.

Activity Cost Drivers

Factors that influence the costs of business activities, often used in activity-based costing to allocate costs more accurately.

ABC Costing System

Activity Based Costing system; a method of cost accounting that identifies and assigns costs to specific activities involved in the production process to better understand overhead costs.

Plantwide Overhead Rate

A single overhead absorption rate used throughout an entire plant or company to allocate indirect costs to products.