You Have Been Promised a Payment of $400 in the Future.In

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Multiple Choice

You have been promised a payment of $400 in the future.In which of the following cases is the present value of this payment the lowest?

• A)You receive the payment 4 years from now and the interest rate is 4 percent.
• B)You receive the payment 4 years from now and the interest rate is 5 percent.
• C)You receive the payment 5 years from now and the interest rate is 4 percent.
• D)You receive the payment 5 years from now and the interest rate is 5 percent.

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Cost Drivers

Factors that cause a change in the cost of an activity, such as machine-hours, labor-hours, or quantity of materials.

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Cost Drivers

Factors that cause a change in the cost of an activity, used to assign overhead costs in activity-based costing systems.

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