Which of the Following Statements Is Characteristic of Target Costing

question 103

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is characteristic of target costing?

• A)It is a useful tool for establishing cost reduction goals for products in the design stage.
• B)It is the difference between the sales price needed to capture a predetermined market share and the desired per-unit gross profit.
• C)Target costs are internally driven.
• D)The principal challenge of target costing is finding the cause of the costs.

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Definitions:

Friedman Test

A statistical test, not based on parameter distributions, employed to uncover variances in treatments over numerous experiments.

Population Locations

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Nonparametric Counterpart

A statistical method that does not assume a specific distribution for the data.

Parametric One-way Analysis

A type of parametric test that assesses for significant differences between more than two groups based on one independent variable.