?This question appeared in the June 2015 exam.?
The following statements have been made about life cycle costing:?
(1) It focuses on the short-term by identifying costs at the beginning of a product's life cycle?
(2) It identifies all costs which arise in relation to the product each year and then calculates the?product's profitability on an annual basis?
(3) It accumulates a product's costs over its whole life time and works out the overall?profitability of a product?
(4) It allocates costs to each stage of a product's life cycle and writes them off at the end of?each stage?
Which of the above statements is/are correct??