From the Following List of Environmental Costs,which Is the Most

question 28

Multiple Choice

From the following list of environmental costs,which is the most difficult to include in an environmental management accounting system?

• A) Costs to pay for breaches of environmental rules
• B) Costs on society generally,resulting from the firm's environmental breaches
• C) Environmental reporting costs
• D) Costs to monitor the environmental impacts of the firm's actions

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Definitions:

Overhead Variances

Differences between the actual overhead costs incurred and the standard costs for the overheads that were budgeted for a period.

Controllable

Controllable usually refers to expenses or costs that can be managed or influenced by decisions made by a company or an individual.

Volume

Refers to the amount of an asset or security that changes hands over a set period of time, commonly used in financial markets to gauge trading activity and liquidity.

Material Variances

The difference between the actual cost of materials used in production and the standard cost of materials that should have been used.