Which of the Following Statements About U

question 69

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about U.S.racial categories is true?

• A)They are applied to endogamous breeding populations.
• B)They are biologically valid, as demonstrated by the Phipps case in 1970s Louisiana.
• C)They are based on global racial categories that vary little among societies.
• D)They are based on genetics, whereas Japan's are based upon undemonstrated descent.
• E)They are culturally arbitrary, even though most people assume them to be based in biology.

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Definitions:

Support Department Costs

Costs associated with the functions that assist the operational activities of a company, including HR, IT, and maintenance services, indispensable for production but not part of the direct manufacturing process.

Sequential Method

A process approach where tasks or operations are performed one after another in a specific order.

ABC

Activity-Based Costing, a method of assigning overhead and indirect costs to specific products or activities based on their use of resources.

Step-Down Method

A method of allocating support department costs to production departments that considers some inter-support-department services in a sequential or step-down fashion. Also known as the sequential method.