Knowing How Costs Behave to Change in the Level of Activity

question 18

Multiple Choice

Knowing how costs behave to change in the level of activity 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.

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