Answer:
A) The GAAP statement is based on cost function rather than cost behavior.
Explanation:
Income statements that follow GAAP rules categorizes expenses based on their business function: product, selling or administrative.
While cost behavior categorizes costs based on how they influence a company's activities: variable, fixed and mixed. When a manager wants to measure the impact of any decision he/she makes, they need to use this type of categorization. For example, if fixed costs increase, what is the new break even point? If variable costs decrease, how is the marginal cost affected?
Answer: None of the answers
Explanation:
The options to the question are:
A) The control limits are too tight
(B) The control limits are acceptable
(C) The control limits are too loose
(D) None of the answers.
According to the seven run rule, a process is out of control in a control chart in a situation whereby there are seven consecutive data points that all fall on same side of mean. In such case an adjustment has to be made.
In the scenario in the question, none of the answers will be chosen because there has been a violation of the seven run rule as the answers provided are all incorrect.
