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- May 9, 2024 at 4:35 pm #705167
“A new product is in development, which will take one year. It’s expected to have a two-year life cycle before being replaced. Which of the following statements about life cycle costing are true? Statement 1: It’s helpful to assess if new products have been successful. Statement 2: The individual profitability for products is less accurate.
A Both statements are true
B Both statements are false
C Statement 1 is true and statement 2 is false
D Statement 2 is true and statement 1 is false”
Hello tutor, for this question, the answer is C, but I do not really understand the reason. Can you please explain it?
Thank you so much!
May 10, 2024 at 8:53 am #705197I don’t know where you found this question, but I don’t really agree with either of the two statements as they have been worded here.
As explained in my free lecture notes, he purpose of life-cycle costing is to assess whether or not a new product is likely to be profitable over it’s entire life as opposed to looking at the profitability in each individual year of it’s life.
May 10, 2024 at 5:41 pm #705216Thank you tutor for your reply. This question is from BPP KIT book.
Because of the copy right issue, I just paraphrased the question. But you can have a look at this website, I checked and the content is the same as the one in BPP KIT:
Thank you tutor.May 11, 2024 at 7:55 am #705233I have the BPP Kit and so in future you just need to tell me the number of the question.
I do still stand by what I wrote in my previous reply.
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