A Cost Baseline Analysis Entails

question 24

Multiple Choice

A cost baseline analysis entails

• A) an estimation of what costs would be for a firm/industry without any environmental regulations.
• B) an exact accounting of costs for a firm/industry with existing regulations at the moment.
• C) the estimation of what the firm/industry future cost levels could be expected to be in the absence of a proposed regulation.
• D) the estimation of what the firm/industry future/industry cost levels would be if the proposed environmental legislation were enacted.

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