An Example of a Carrying Cost Is

question 87

Multiple Choice

An example of a carrying cost is:

• A) warehouse security.
• B) time spent finding suppliers.
• C) additional machinery set-ups.
• D) transportation costs.

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Definitions:

Activity-Based Costing

An accounting method that assigns costs to products or services based on the activities they require, aiming for more accurate cost information.

Manufacturing Overhead Costs

Indirect costs associated with manufacturing, including costs related to factory operations but not directly tied to specific products.

Activity Cost Pools

These are groups in which costs are collected according to the activities they support, facilitating more accurate allocation of overheads in cost accounting.

Activity Cost Pools

Groups of individual costs driven by the same cost drivers, used in activity-based costing to allocate costs more accurately.