A Business Segment or Department with a Positive Contribution Margin

question 51

True/False

A business segment or department with a positive contribution margin contributes to increasing the net income of the business.

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Definitions:

Oedipal Complex

A Freudian theory in psychoanalytic psychology that a child, typically around the age of three to five, experiences a desire for the opposite-sex parent and hostility toward the same-sex parent.

Phallic Complex

A Freudian theory phase of childhood development characterized by attachment to the parent of the opposite sex and jealousy toward the same-sex parent.

Defence Mechanisms

Psychological strategies used unconsciously to protect oneself from anxiety and to cope with reality.

Fixation

In psychology, refers to a persistent focus of the id’s pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier stage of psychosexual development.