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Management · Q339

Management Accounting

Graduate and Post Graduate · Management · question 339

Q339

In customer cost hierarchy, costs of individual customer support activities are classified as

A.
discretionary channel costs
B.
corporate-sustaining costs
C.
distribution-channel costs
D.
customer-sustaining costs
Answer

Answer: Option D

Solution

Answer: Option D
Solution:
In customer cost hierarchy, costs of individual customer support activities are classified as customer-sustaining costs. A customer-sustaining cost is the cost of resources consumed to service a customer regardless of the number of units sold to the customer.