One characteristic of incremental budgeting is that it

A. allows comparison using various units, like labor hours and dollars.
B. is flexible towards changing environmental demands.
C. locks managers into stable spending arrangements.
D. allows easy comparison of different departments doing different activities.
E. requires more time from managers than zero-based budgeting.


C. locks managers into stable spending arrangements.

One difficulty of incremental budgeting is that incremental budgets tend to lock departments into stable spending arrangements; they are not flexible in meeting environmental demands.

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