Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Incremental costs are the accumulated expenditures associated with an environmental policy initiative.
2. When implementing environmental policy, all expenses paid by the government plus compliance costs paid by all economic sectors are known as explicit costs.
3. Fixed costs are controllable in the short run but not the long run.
4. The accounting equivalent of variable costs is capital costs.
5. The value of reduced product variety due to an environmental policy initiative or regulation is an example of an implicit cost.


1. False
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. True

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