The Activity-Based Costing System

question 8

Multiple Choice

The activity-based costing system

• A)is the most appropriate method of cost accounting for rigid hierarchical organizations.
• B)effectively departmentalizes an organization based on its core functions, such as human resources and maintenance.
• C)provides a more accurate picture of how costs should be charged to products and services.
• D)assumes that organizations are bureaucratic "machines" that can be separated into component functions.
• E)fails to allocate costs across business processes and is less effective than traditional methods of cost accounting.

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