Consider the Following Statements When Answering This Question: I

question 138

Multiple Choice

Consider the following statements when answering this question: I. Whenever a firm's average variable costs are falling as output rises, marginal costs must be falling too.
II) Whenever a firm's average total costs are rising as output rises, average variable costs must be rising too.

• A) I is true, and II is false.
• B) I is false, and II is true.
• C) I and II are both true.
• D) I and II are both false.

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Definitions:

Activity Cost Pools

These are groups in which costs are collected according to the activities they support, facilitating more accurate allocation of overheads in cost accounting.

Activity Cost Pools

Groups of individual costs driven by the same cost drivers, used in activity-based costing to allocate costs more accurately.

Cost Per Unit

The total cost incurred by a company to produce, store, and sell one unit of a particular product or service.

Predetermined Overhead Rate

A rate used to charge manufacturing overhead cost to jobs that is established in advance for each period. It is computed by dividing the estimated total manufacturing overhead cost for the period by the estimated total amount of the allocation base for the period.