When Deciding How to Evaluate Costs, a Marketing Manager Should

question 119

Multiple Choice

When deciding how to evaluate costs, a marketing manager should realize that

• A) the best method for dealing with fixed costs depends on the objectives of the analysis.
• B) according to the iceberg principle too much detail in cost analysis obscures the big problems by calling attention to the superficial problems.
• C) the full cost approach is misleading and should not be used.
• D) the contribution-margin approach ignores necessary fixed costs and should not be used.
• E) None of these are correct.

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