Operating leverage is
A) concerned with the relative mix of fixed costs and variable costs in the organization
B) the use of fixed costs to extract higher percentage changes in profits as sales activity changes
C) likely to be higher in an automated manufacturing system than in a manual system
D) all of these
E) none of these
D
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