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Whitman Printing has contracts to complete weekly supplements required by forty-six customers. For the year 20X5, manufacturing overhead cost estimates total $840,000 for an annual production capacity of 12 million pages.
For 2010 Whitman Printing decided to evaluate the use of additional cost pools. After analyzing manufacturing overhead costs, it was determined that number of design changes, setups, and inspections are the primary manufacturing overhead cost drivers. The following information was gathered during the analysis:
During 2010, two customers, Money Managers and Hospital Systems, are expected to use the following printing services:

-Activity-based management (ABM)includes decisions about all EXCEPT:
A)pricing and product mix
B)smoothing costs
C)reducing costs
D)improving processes

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Answer the following questions using the information below:
Whitman Printing has contracts to complete weekly supplements required by forty-six customers. For the year 20X5, manufacturing overhead cost estimates total $840,000 for an annual production capacity of 12 million pages.
For 2010 Whitman Printing decided to evaluate the use of additional cost pools. After analyzing manufacturing overhead costs, it was determined that number of design changes, setups, and inspections are the primary manufacturing overhead cost drivers. The following information was gathered during the analysis:
  During 2010, two customers, Money Managers and Hospital Systems, are expected to use the following printing services:
 
-Activity-based management (ABM)includes decisions about all EXCEPT:
A)pricing and product mix 
B)smoothing costs 
C)reducing costs 
D)improving processes

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Activity-based management (ABM) focuses on pricing, product mix, reducing costs, and improving processes, but it does not include smoothing costs.

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