A Freight Forwarder Breaks One Large Shipment into Multiple Small

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True/False

A freight forwarder breaks one large shipment into multiple small shipments so that it can be transported by trucks or aircraft with limited cargo capacities.

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Definitions:

Batch Level

Pertaining to costs or activities that are associated with a group of units produced together, rather than individual units or the entire production process.

Facility Level

Pertains to overhead costs and activities that are tied to the overall operation and maintenance of a production facility or plant.

Activity-based Costing

A costing method that assigns costs to products and services based on the activities and resources that go into their production, providing detailed information on where and how costs are incurred.

ABC

An acronym for Activity-Based Costing, a method of accounting that identifies and assigns costs to activities and then to products or services based on their use of those activities.