The Absorption-Cost Approach Is Used by Most Companies for All

Multiple Choice

The absorption-cost approach is used by most companies for all of the following reasons except that

A) absorption cost information is readily provided by a company's cost accounting system.
B) absorption cost provides the most defensible bases for justifying prices to interested parties.
C) basing prices on only variable costs could encourage managers to set too low a price to boost sales.
D) this approach is more consistent with cost-volume-profit analysis.