Activity-Based Costing

question 36

Multiple Choice

Activity-based costing

• A)is a tool for identifying the activities that cause a company's product to be strongly differentiated from the products of rivals.
• B)is far superior to SWOT analysis for analyzing a firm's internal situation.
• C)involves developing a "worry list" of problems and issues for managerial strategy making.
• D)is an accounting system that assigns a company's expenses to whichever activity in a company's value chain is responsible for creating the cost.
• E)involves determining which value chain activities represent variable costs and which represent fixed costs.

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