Which of the following statements is true?  

A. Volume-based costing has typically resulted in lower gross margins for high-volume products and higher gross margins for low-volume products.
B. Activity-based costs per unit are always greater than volume-based costs per unit.
C. Activity-based costing typically provides less information about product costs while requiring more recordkeeping.
D. Different cost allocation methods are constructed so that they typically result in the same or similar estimates of how much it costs to make a product.


Answer: A

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