12) Cost accounting provides information only for management accounting purposes. 13) Cost management involves long-term and short-term decisions that attempt to increase value for customers and lower costs of products or services. 14) Strategy does NOT specify how an organization matches its capabilities with the opportunities in the marketplace. 15) All strategies should be evaluated regarding the resources and capabilities of the company 16) The best-designed strategies are valuable whether or not they are effectively implemented. 17) The key to a company's success is creating value for customers while differentiating itself from its competitors. 18) The key to a company's success is always to be the low cost producer in a particular industry 19) Companies generally follow one of two basic strategies: 1) providing a quality product or service at low prices, or 2) offering a unique product or service often priced higher than competing products. 20) Management accountants should have little or no role in deciding on a company's strategy 21) Companies can decide on an appropriate strategy based strictly on internally available information. 22) Strategic cost management describes cost management that specifically focuses on strategic issues. 23) Identifying a company's most important customers does not help formulate strategy. 24) The best-designed strategies and the best-developed capabilities are useless unless they are effectively executed. 25) The supply chain refers to the sequence of business functions in which customer usefulness is added to products or services. 26) An effective way to cut costs is to eliminate activities that do not improve the product attributes that customers value. 27) For optimal planning success it is best if each business function within the value chain is performed one at a time in sequence. 28) For best results, cost management emphasizes independently coordinating supply chain activities within your company and not interfering with other companies. 29) Technological innovation has led to shorter product-life cycles and a need to bring new products to market more rapidly. 30) Key success factors include cost, quality, timeliness, and innovation. 31) Customers are demanding increased levels of performance in all aspects of the value chain and the supply chain, 32) The value chain describes the flow of goods, services, and information from the initial sources of materials and services to the delivery of products to consumers. 33) The supply chain always occurs within a single organization. Distribution refers to promoting and selling products or services to customers or prospective customers. 35) The production component of the value chain refers to acquiring. coordinating, and assembling resources to produce a product or deliver a service