General Motors Operates Several Divisions in Supplying Cars, Trucks, Vans

question 91

Multiple Choice

General Motors operates several divisions in supplying cars, trucks, vans, and SUVs to its customers. Each division engages the usual business participants, overlaps management functions with other divisions, and works in basically the same functional areas as all of the others. Chevrolet, Cadillac, and GMC trucks are among the company’s product lines. Its few major competitors include Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Nissan, Honda, and Toyota. Each automaker sells a large portion of all the products sold in the marketplace, and each differentiates its product lines.
-If the automobile industry included many rather than few manufacturers of differentiated their products,we might conclude that it was characterized by _____ conditions.

• A)perfect competition
• B)oligopoly
• C)monopolistic
• D)monopoly

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Definitions:

Product Costs

Expenses directly tied to the production of goods or services, including materials, labor, and overhead costs.

Period Costs

Costs that are taken directly to the income statement as expenses in the period in which they are incurred or accrued.

Fixed Costs

Expenses that do not change in total despite fluctuations in production or sales volume, such as rent, insurance, and salaries.

Variable Costing

A costing method that includes only variable production costs—direct materials, direct labor, and variable manufacturing overhead—in product costs.