A. customer sustaining costs
B. customer output unit-level costs
C. customer batch-level costs
D. corporate sustaining costs
✅ The correct answer is option C.
In customer cost hierarchy, costs of all activities incurred to sell group of units to end consumers are classified as customer batch-level costs. Batch-level costs are expenses related to a group of products that cannot readily be traced back to an individual item. In other words, these production costs are incurred to produce a set of products or a batch and can’t be allocated to an individual unit.
In customer cost hierarchy, costs of all activities incurred to sell group of units to end consumers are classified as customer batch-level costs. Batch-level costs are expenses related to a group of products that cannot readily be traced back to an individual item. In other words, these production costs are incurred to produce a set of products or a batch and can’t be allocated to an individual unit.