After Looking at the Ads in Her Sunday Paper,Ruby Decided

question 89

Multiple Choice

After looking at the ads in her Sunday paper,Ruby decided to visit a local nursery and buy potting soil at $1.99 a bag.The regular price is $4.99 a bag.While Ruby was there she also purchased three bushes,six flowering plants,and a bird bath.You can infer from this information that the nursery used the bags of potting soil as a(n) ________.

• A)loss leader
• B)assimilator
• C)bait-and-switch
• D)price line
• E)reference price

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Definitions:

Activity-based Costing

An approach to cost allocation where overhead and indirect costs are apportioned to corresponding products and services according to the activities they necessitate.

Indirect Labor

Labor costs not directly tied to the production of specific goods or services, such as maintenance and cleaning staff.

Activity Pools

Groups of individual tasks or work processes that are categorized together to allocate costs in activity-based costing.

Factory Overhead

Factory overhead comprises all indirect costs involved in the manufacturing process, including utilities, maintenance, and factory equipment depreciation.