As a study aid. your classmate Pascal Adams has prepared the following list of statements about decision-making and incremental analysis.
1. The first step in managements decision-making process is, “Determine and evaluate possible courses of action.”
2. The final step in managements decision-making process is to actually make the decision.
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4. In making business decisions, management ordinarily considers only financial information because it is objectively determined.
5. Decisions involve a choice among alternative courses of action.
6. The process used to identify the financial data that change under alternative courses of action is called incremental analysis.
7. Costs that are the same under all alternative courses of action sometimes affect the decision.
8. When using incremental analysis, some costs will always change under alternative courses of action, but revenues will not.
9. Variable costs will change under alternative courses of action, but fixed costs will not.
Instructions
Identify each statement as true or false. If false, indicate how to correct the statement.
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