The Term "Discretionary Costs" Refers to

question 28

Multiple Choice

The term "discretionary costs" refers to

• A)costs that management decides to incur in the current period to enable the company to achieve objectives other than the filling of orders placed by customers.
• B)costs that are likely to respond to the amount of attention devoted to them by a specified manager.
• C)costs that are governed mainly by past decisions that established the present levels of operating and organizational capacity and that only change slowly in response to small changes in capacity.
• D)amortization of costs that were capitalized in previous periods.

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