The following statements have been made about life cycle costing: (i) It focuses on the short-term costs at the beginning of a product’s life cycle (ii) It identifies all costs which arise in relation to the product annually to calculate the product’s annual profit. (iii) It accumulates a product’s costs over its whole life time and works out the overall profitability of a product (iv) It allocates costs to each stage of a product’s life cycle and writes them off at the end of each stage Which of the above statements is/are correct?   a. (iii) only b. (i) and (iii) c. (i) and (iv) d. (ii) only

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The following statements have been made about life cycle costing:

(i) It focuses on the short-term costs at the beginning of a product’s life cycle

(ii) It identifies all costs which arise in relation to the product annually to calculate the product’s annual profit.

(iii) It accumulates a product’s costs over its whole life time and works out the overall profitability of a product

(iv) It allocates costs to each stage of a product’s life cycle and writes them off at the end of each stage

Which of the above statements is/are correct?


 

a.

(iii) only

b.

(i) and (iii)

c.

(i) and (iv)

d.

(ii) only

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