The pricing strategy which starts with ideal price and targets the cost which ensures that set price will be met is classified as?

Correct answer: A. target costing

  • A. target costing
  • B. marginal costing
  • C. learning curve costing
  • D. demand based costing

Explanation

Target costing begins with the price customers are expected to accept and subtracts the required profit to determine the allowable production cost. Marginal costing and demand-based costing do not specifically reverse-engineer cost from a target selling price.

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