?u recently heard someone make the following comment:

$$ We were able to lower our prices for Product X to customers to match our competitors $$

prices for Product X to customers after we conducted an activity $-$ based costing analysis

and learned the unit cost of Product X was lower than we previously thought. $$

Go back a re $-$ read the quotation again very carefully.

Then, explain politely why the implied cause $-$ and $-$ effect relationship in the statement is

not, in fact, validu recently heard someone make the following comment:

$$ We were able to lower our prices for Product X to customers to match our competitors $$

prices for Product X to customers after we conducted an activity $-$ based costing analysis

and learned the unit cost of Product X was lower than we previously thought. $$

Go back a re $-$ read the quotation again very carefully.

Then, explain politely why the implied cause $-$ and $-$ effect relationship in the statement is

not, in fact, valid