A Disruptive Technology Is a New Way of Doing Things

question 22

True/False

A disruptive technology is a new way of doing things that initially does not meet the needs of existing customers.

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Definitions:

Activity Rate

The cost driver rate that is used in activity-based costing to allocate overhead costs to products or services.

Activity Cost Pool

A grouping of all costs related to a specific activity or process in a company, used in activity-based costing.

Activity-Based Costing

A costing method that assigns costs to products based on the activities that go into making them, providing a more detailed measure of costs.

Overhead Applied

A calculation that allocates a portion of estimated overhead costs to individual units of production based on a predetermined formula.