CHAPTER 13 SHORT-RUN DECISION MAKING: RELEVaNT COSTING 1 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. Tactical decisions are short run in nature; they involve choosing among alternatives with an immediate or limited end in view. Strategic decisions involve selecting strategies that yield a long-term competitive advantage. 2. Depreciation is an allocation of a sunk cost. This cost is a past cost and will never differ across alternatives. 3. The salary of the supervisor of an assembly line with excess capacity
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for an order for 2‚500 units of GX1. The company only makes GX1 to order and currently has no other orders in process. The production requirements for GX1 are as follows: Materials: Three types of material are used in production: Amount Cost Resale Current used per unit price value price to buy Material A 12kg £2.50 £1.00 £2.75 Material B 4kg £7.00 £5.50 £8.50 Material C 6kg - £6.50 - Material A is used extensively throughout the company’s range of products
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Relevant Costs and Decision Making 4.16 A. The fixed overhead cost will be the same regardless of which method Regina Corp goes. Based on the analysis of Yoklic‚ they will incur the additional cost of $6 per unit by purchasing the subassemblies versus manufacturing them. B. The $50‚000 that is saved by eliminating the fixed overhead reduces the cost for outsourcing. This will give Yoklic an overall $20‚000 savings for 5‚000 units by purchasing externally versus manufacturing internally
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Relevant Costs Defined Relevant costs possess two characteristics: (1) They are future costs and (2) They differ across alternatives. All pending decisions relate to the future; accordingly‚ only future costs can be relevant to decisions. However‚ to be relevant‚ a cost must not only be a future cost but must also differ from one alternative to another. If a future cost is the same for more than one alternative‚ then it has no effect on the decision. Such a cost is irrelevant. The
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CHAPTER 2: RELEVANT REVENUES AND COSTS The primary goal of a firm is to maximize profits. This implies‚ of course‚ that each decision a manager makes is consistent with that goal. Although managers are expected to rely on internally-produced reports‚ such as balance sheets and income statements‚ to help them make decisions‚ most of the information that appears on these statements is period-based rather than decision-based. A balance sheet shows the sum total of a firm’s assets and liabilities
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Abstract. That sunk costs are not relevant to rational decision-making is often presented as one of the basic principles of economics. When people are influenced by sunk costs in their decision-making‚ they are said to be committing the “sunk cost fallacy.” Contrary to conventional wisdom‚ we argue that‚ in a broad range of situations‚ it is rational for people to condition behavior on sunk costs‚ because of informational content‚ reputational concerns‚ or financial and time constraints. Once
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In economics and business decision-making‚ sunk costs are retrospective (past) costs that have already been incurred and cannot be recovered. Sunk costs are sometimes contrasted with prospective costs‚ which are future costs that may be incurred or changed if an action is taken. Both retrospective and prospective costs may be either fixed (continuous for as long as the business is in operation and unaffected by output volume) or variable (dependent on volume) costs. Note‚ however‚ that many economists
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Sunk costs are costs that are irrecoverable. It’s something that you already spent and that you won’t get back‚ regardless of future outcomes. And remember that the greatest example of sunk cost you pay is with your own time‚ and which you will not be able to recover: all that you lived up until now is gone — you just can’t reclaim that time. Stop clinging to the past and make the most of your life right now. One of the most important lessons about economic costs is that sunk costs are sunk
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Chapter 13 Relevant Costs for Decision Making Solutions to Questions 13-1 A relevant cost is a cost that differs in total between the alternatives in a decision. 13-2 An incremental cost (or benefit) is the change in cost (or benefit) that will result from some proposed action. An opportunity cost is the benefit that is lost or sacrificed when rejecting some course of action. A sunk cost is a cost that has already been incurred and that cannot be changed by any future decision. 13-3 No. Variable
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1. The cost of a computer system installed last year is an example of: (Points: 2) a sunk cost a relevant cost a differential cost an avoidable cost 2. In evaluating different alternatives‚ it is useful to concentrate on: (Points: 2) variable costs fixed costs total costs relevant costs 3. Relevant costs in a make-or-buy decision of a part include: (Points: 2) setup overhead costs for the manufacture of the
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