What is multistage activity-based costing? Multiple Choice

a. The net present value of estimated future profits from a given customer; in practice, a firm is likely to estimate this value over the next three to five years.

b. A comprehensive and fully integrated management accounting approach that provides management with decision support information based on an operational view of the organization.

c. Identifies cost activities and cost drivers related to servicing customers.

d. The assignment of resource costs directly to cost objects using the cost per time unit of supplying the resource, rather than first assigning costs to activities and then from activities to cost objects.

e. The assignment of resource costs to certain activities that, in turn, are assigned to other activities before being assigned to the final cost objects.