The key advantage of activity-based costing is:
a. workload is determined based on the re-quired hours of nursing care.
b. it reflects what it costs to provide services and identifies why costs were incurred.
c. data can be used in constructing a per-sonnel budget because it is linked to the volume indicator of patient days.
d. the judgment of an expert nurse clinician must override an empirical system and be based on patients' needs in real time.
B
The key advantage of activity-based costing is that it reflects what it costs to provide services and identifies why costs were incurred.
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