Company Ex produces hospital equipment and the setup requirements vary from product to product. Company Ex produces its products based on customer orders and uses ABC costing. In one of its indirect cost pools, setup costs and distribution costs are pooled together. Costs in this pool are allocated using number of customer orders for the easiness of costing operations. Based on the information provided, which of the following arguments is valid?

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Company Ex has failed to use the correct cost driver as the cost-allocation base for setup costs.

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Company Ex has unnecessarily wasted resources by classifying setup and distribution costs as they could have been considered as direct costs.

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Company Ex has clearly failed to identify as many direct costs as is economically feasible.

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none of the others

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All costs in a homogeneous cost pool have the same or a similar cause-and-effect relationship with the single cost driver that is used as the cost-allocation base for Company Ex.

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