Stakeholder Responsibility Refers to

question 144

Multiple Choice

Stakeholder responsibility refers to

• A) the view that an organization has an obligation to those who can affect the achievement of its objectives.
• B) the obligation of a firm to price its products or services at a level whereby the consumer is treated fairly and the firm is still able to make a profit.
• C) the duty of a firm to maximize profits for its owners or stockholders.
• D) the concept that no expansion or additional research and development will occur until a company is making a profit.
• E) the idea that organizations are part of a larger society and are accountable to that society for their actions.

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Definitions:

Activity Rate

The activity rate refers to a predetermined overhead rate used in activity-based costing to allocate costs to products or services based on specific activities.

Predetermined Overhead Rate

A rate calculated before the accounting period begins, used to assign overhead costs to products or job orders based on a relevant activity base such as machine hours or labor hours.

Direct Labor-Hours

The sum of all hours spent by workers who are directly engaged in manufacturing, used as a foundation for distributing labor expenses to products or services.

Traditional Costing

An accounting method that allocates manufacturing overhead costs to products based on volume-related measures, such as labor hours or machine hours.