In: Accounting
Which of the following costs relate to warranty repairs, product liability costs, marketing costs, and lost sales?
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 a.  | 
 prevention costs.  | 
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 b.  | 
 appraisal costs.  | 
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 c.  | 
 internal failure costs.  | 
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 d.  | 
 external failure costs.  | 
2. Which of the following terms describes the range of activity over which the firm expects a set of cost behaviors to be consistent?
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 a.  | 
 irrelevant range.  | 
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 b.  | 
 relevant range.  | 
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 c.  | 
 short-range.  | 
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 d.  | 
 long-range.  | 
3. J-Mobile provides cellular phone and Internet services with a plan that provides up to 1,000 minutes of airtime usage for a flat rate of $99.99 per month plus a charge for any minutes used over this amount at the rate of $0.10 per minute in excess of the minimum 1,000 airtime minutes. Which of the following describes the cost of the J-Mobile service?
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 a.  | 
 fixed cost, only.  | 
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 b.  | 
 variable cost, only.  | 
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 c.  | 
 semi-variable cost.  | 
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 d.  | 
 semi-fixed cost.  | 
1
Which of the following costs relate to warranty repairs, product liability costs, marketing costs, and lost sales?
Answer: external failure costs.
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2
Which of the following terms describes the range of activity over which the firm expects a set of cost behaviors to be consistent?
Answer: relevant range.
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3
J-Mobile provides cellular phone and Internet services with a plan that provides up to 1,000 minutes of airtime usage for a flat rate of $99.99 per month plus a charge for any minutes used over this amount at the rate of $0.10 per minute in excess of the minimum 1,000 airtime minutes. Which of the following describes the cost of the J-Mobile service?
Answer: semi-variable cost.