A Cost Pool Is

question 24

Multiple Choice

A cost pool is:

• A) a collection of homogeneous costs to be assigned.
• B) almost always the combined result of decisions made by different responsibility center managers.
• C) the primary function of a responsibility accounting system.
• D) the amount of cost that has been allocated, say, 10%, to a user department.
• E) the tool used to allocate cost dollars to user departments.

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