求助OG30

The price the government pays for standard weapons purchased from military contractors is determined by a pricing method called "historical costing". Historical costing allows contractors to protect their profits by adding a percentage increase based on the current rate of inflation, to the previous year's contactual price.

which of the folllowing statement , if ture , is the best basis for a criticism of historical costing as an economically sound pricing method for military contracts?

答案是：

the government might continue tto pay past inefficient use of funds.

弄不明白，为什么要选这个？？

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The price the government pays for standard weapons purchased from military contractors is determined by a pricing method called "historical costing". Historical costing allows contractors to protect their profits by adding a percentage increase based on the current rate of inflation, to the previous year's contactual price.

which of the folllowing statement , if ture , is the best basis for a criticism of historical costing as an economically sound pricing method for military contracts?

A The government might continue to pay for past inefficient use of funds

B The rate of inflation has varied considerably over past twenty years

C The contractual price will be greatly affected by the cost of materials used for the products .

D Many taxpayers question the amount of money the government spends on military contracts.

E The pricing method based on historical costing might not encourage the development of innoviative weapons.

the answer is A

WHY?

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Reason:to add price              Conclusion:to protect their profit.

A inefficient use of money from the government is not related to this conclusion

B inflaction is not related to this conclusion (to pay attention to the differences between  to add and to vary)

C material cost is not related to this conclusion (to pay attention to the differences between  to add and to cost)

D question is not relavated to this conclusion

E To add price is to protect the profit, but leads a bad result of not encouraging the development of innoviative weapons.

Thus, E is answer

该问题问的是从经济节约的角度讲，此方法怎么不好?

Historical Costing是在去年合同的基础上家一定的价。

A选项说政府可能会为原来不明智的花钱买单。因为此法决定了，如果上一年花了不该花的钱，而下一年的合同不但不调整，反而还要在原来的基础上继续加钱。

我觉得OG的解释很到位了,再仔细看看啊.

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我对OG里C的解释有点疑问
OG说C because it refers to costs that are reflected in inflation
不懂的是原料价格上升一定是因为通货膨胀吗
如果原料价格只是单纯因为原料产量减少呢 那调整inflation不就无法反映原料价格上升了吗

那historical costing不就对contractors不公平了吗

我对og对c的解释也不理解，哪位可以帮忙 看一下 ，谢谢