Indicate Whether Each of the Following Statements About Responsibility Centers

question 123

Short Answer

Indicate whether each of the following statements about responsibility centers is true or false.
A responsibility center controls identifiable revenue or expense items.______
To be designated as a responsibility center,a department need not be a large segment of an organization.______
A cost center generates revenues and expenses.______
Investment centers are commonly found at upper levels of the organization chart.______
The manager of a profit center is evaluated based primarily on his/her ability to control costs.______

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Definitions:

Probability

A measure of the likelihood that a particular event will occur, expressed as a number between 0 and 1, where 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty.

Rollback Technique

A decision analysis procedure used to solve decision trees backwards from the end nodes to the beginning, to find the sequence of decisions that maximizes the expected utility.

Expected Opportunity Loss

The anticipated value of the best foregone opportunity when a particular decision is made.

Gross Profits

Total revenue of a company minus the cost of goods sold, not including other operating expenses.