Knowing How Costs Behave Is Useful to Management for All

question 159

Multiple Choice

Knowing how costs behave is useful to management for all the following reasons except for

• A) predicting customer demand.
• B) predicting profits as sales and production volumes change.
• C) estimating costs.
• D) changing an existing product production.

Understand the fundamental concepts and characteristic assumptions of behaviorism.

Identify the differences between radical and methodological behaviorists.

Recognize the importance of the environment and past experiences in shaping behavior according to behaviorists.

Distinguish between intervening variables and observable measures in behaviorist research.

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Definitions:

Income Elasticity of Demand

A measure of how much the quantity demanded of a good responds to a change in consumers' income.

Quantity Demanded

The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a specific price, at a given time.

Own Price Elasticity

A measure of how the quantity demanded of a good responds to a change in the price of that good, keeping other factors constant.

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