It is important that a standard rate rather than actual expenses be used to charge service department costs to producing departments so that:

Question $16$Select one:

a$.$

extra costs resulting from inefficient operations in service departments cannot be passed on to the production departments.

b$.$

production department managers know the amount of usage at the beginning of the year.

c$.$

extra costs resulting from inefficient operations in production departments can not be passed on to the service departments.

d$.$

service department managers don't need to worry about meeting their budgets.