All of the Following Are Considered Top-Down Approaches to Determining

question 14

Multiple Choice

All of the following are considered top-down approaches to determining budgets EXCEPT:

• A)the objective and task method
• B)the affordable method
• C)the percentage of sales method
• D)arbitrary allocation
• E)the competitive parity method

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