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Which of the following are concerns about target costing?
a. Conflicts may arise within organizations.
b. Employees may experience burnout due to the pressures of meeting target costs.
c. Development time may increase.
d. All of the above.

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Target costing is a method of cost planning focused on reducing costs for products that require discrete manufacturing processes and reasonably short product life cycles.
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