The "Contribution-Margin Approach" to Marketing Cost Analysis

question 108

Multiple Choice

The "contribution-margin approach" to marketing cost analysis:

• A) considers only those costs which are directly related to particular alternatives.
• B) is especially useful for estimating the long-run profit of a proposed strategy.
• C) allocates variable costs which are hard to measure to overhead.
• D) is especially useful for determining if there should be more controls on fixed costs.
• E) All of the above.

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