Determining Whether a Company's Overall Prices and Costs Are Competitive

question 29

Multiple Choice

Determining whether a company's overall prices and costs are competitive requires an entire value chain analysis,which typically demands:

• A) looking at the costs of a company's competitively relevant suppliers and forward channel allies (distributors/dealers).
• B) considering the costs of a company's internally performed activities.
• C) the use of benchmarking the costs in a company's value chain system (the costs of its suppliers,its internally performed activities,the costs of its distributors/dealers)against the costs of the value chain systems employed by rival firms.
• D) the use of activity-based cost accounting.
• E) All of these.

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