"If It Walks Like a Duck,and Quacks Like a Duck,it

question 105

Multiple Choice

"If it walks like a duck,and quacks like a duck,it must be a duck..." This expression best captures the essence of the

• A) base rate fallacy.
• B) correspondence heuristic.
• C) fundamental attribution error.
• D) availability heuristic.
• E) representativeness heuristic.

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Definitions:

Fixed Overhead Volume Variance

The difference between the budgeted and actual fixed overhead costs, attributed to the variance in the volume of production.

Fixed Component

A cost or part of a cost that remains unchanged regardless of changes in the level of output or activity.

Predetermined Overhead Rate

An estimated rate used to allocate manufacturing overhead costs to individual products or job orders based on a specific activity measure, like labor hours or machine hours.

Machine-Hours

A measure of production activity that quantifies the number of hours machines are operated in the production process.