Determining whether a company's overall prices and costs are competitive requires an entire value chain analysis, which typically demands:
A. looking at the costs of a company's competitively relevant suppliers and forward channel allies (distributors/dealers).
B. considering the costs of a company's internally performed activities.
C. the use of benchmarking the costs in a company's value chain system (the costs of its suppliers, its internally performed activities, the costs of its distributors/dealers) against the costs of the value chain systems employed by rival firms.
D. the use of activity-based cost accounting.
E. All of these.
Answer: All of these.