The total traceable costs of the account billing activity centre is $245,000. Cost behaviour analysis indicates that fixed costs are $75,000. Activity analysis indicates that the cost driver for account billing activity is the number of lines printed, and the total lines printed is 2,500,000.
-Which of the following is NOT an example of "efficient" performance?
A) More goods were produced and sold than anticipated.
B) Direct labour hours per unit were less than expected.
C) Direct material used per unit was less than expected.
D) More outputs were achieved with less inputs than predicted.

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Producing and selling more goods than anticipated may indicate that resources were not efficiently allocated and may result in higher costs and lower profits. The other options all indicate that resources were used effectively and efficiently in the production process.

The Total Traceable Costs of the Account Billing Activity Centre