An Organization Focuses on Cost-Savings Techniques and Shares a Percentage

question 12

Multiple Choice

An organization focuses on cost-savings techniques and shares a percentage of the cost-savings resulting from these techniques with its employees.This is the idea behind the:

• A) profit sharing plan.
• B) Scanlon plan.
• C) suggestion plan.
• D) current-distribution plan.
• E) deferred-distribution plan.

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Definitions:

Absorption Costing Income Statement

An income statement where all manufacturing costs, both variable and fixed, are treated as product costs, with non-manufacturing costs treated as period costs.

Variable and Fixed Costs

Variable costs change based on production levels, while fixed costs remain constant regardless of production volume.

Fixed Factory Overhead Costs

Expenses related to the operation of a manufacturing facility that remain constant regardless of the production volume.

Absorption Costing

A method of inventory costing that includes all manufacturing costs—direct materials, direct labor, and both variable and fixed manufacturing overhead—in the cost of a product.