What Is Risk Tolerance? Provide an Example

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What is risk tolerance? Provide an example.

Understand the process of setting up and implementing an ABC system, including first-stage and second-stage allocations.

Appreciate the importance of manager and departmental involvement in the ABC implementation process.

Recognize the impact of ABC on product and overhead costs, including shifts in cost allocation between high and low volume products.

Understand the role of activity rates in the second-stage allocation and their application to products and customers.