[求助]OG11 紫 第4题

杰西卡的戈多

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 probits by adding a percentage incease, based on the current rate of inflation, to the previous year's contractual price.

Which of the following statements, if true,is the best basis for a criticism of historical costing as an economically sound pricing method for military contracts?

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

(敲字好累啊) 答案选A。

不太理解A的意思。为什么是inefficient？

iamwuyan

inefficient use of funds就是说资金利用不行, 是说过去的支付的COST已经不好

题中要CRITICIZE "HISTORICAL COST, 那么根据公式, 因为现在的COST=HISTORICAL COST+INFLATION调整, 如果HISTORICAL COST已经不是个有利的算法, 那么现在这个COST算出来还是个不利的算法, 从而推出A

phoebe2009

pricing method called "historical costing.这个是政府付钱的一个方法，那么怎么样是批评这个方法呢，就是说这个方法不好，这个方法付的很多钱是past inefficient use of funds.就是说过去很多钱被无效的使用了，比如说钱没有都花在standard weapons 上，其中一部分被浪费掉了，比如说被大量的吃喝掉了，