Responsibility Accounting

question 6

Multiple Choice

Responsibility accounting:

• A) fosters goal congruence
• B) involves using the various concepts and tools used by management accountants for planning and control
• C) is used to measure the performance of subunits
• D) All of the given answers

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Definitions:

Accounting Break-Even

Accounting Break-Even is the point at which total revenues equal total expenses (including both fixed and variable costs), resulting in neither profit nor loss.

Total Fixed Costs

The sum of all costs required to produce any good or service that remains constant, regardless of the level of production or output.

Cash Flows

The sum total of monetary transfers into and away from a business, crucially impacting its solvent status.

NPV

Net Present Value, a method used in capital budgeting to evaluate the profitability of an investment or project, by calculating the difference between the present value of cash inflows and outflows.