The Best Way to Allocate Scare Resources to Attain a Specific

Multiple Choice

The best way to allocate scare resources to attain a specific objective, such as the maximization of operating income, is to use:

A) Relevant costing.
B) A value-stream analysis of the decision alternatives.
C) Simple regression (OLS) analysis.
D) Activity-based costing (ABC) .
E) Linear programming (i.e., constrained optimization analysis) .