Under Dual-Cost Allocation, Fixed Costs Are Allocated on the Basis

question 36

Multiple Choice

Under dual-cost allocation, fixed costs are allocated on the basis of a user department's:

• A) long-run usage of a service department's output.
• B) short-run usage of a service department's output.
• C) long-run usage and short-run usage of a service department's output.
• D) neither long-run usage nor short-run usage of a service department's output.
• E) either long-run usage or short-run usage of a service department's output.

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Definitions:

MPC

Marginal Propensity to Consume, which indicates the fraction of additional income that a household is likely to spend on consumption.

Contractionary Fiscal Policy

Economic measures employed by a government to reduce its expenditures or increase taxes with the aim of slowing down an overheated economy.

Potential Output

The highest level of real gross domestic product (GDP) that can be sustained over the long term without increasing inflation, reflecting the maximum productive capacity of an economy.

Short-Run Aggregate Supply

The total production of goods and services in an economy at different price levels in the short-term, considering wages and resource prices as sticky.