Fundamentals Of Cost Accounting (6th Edition)
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ISBN: 9781259969478
Author: WILLIAM LANEN, Shannon Anderson, Michael Maher
Publisher: McGraw Hill Education
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Chapter 15, Problem 25E
Evaluate Transfer Pricing System
Southwest Division offers its product to outside markets for $30. It incurs variable costs of $11 per unit and fixed costs of $37,500 per month based on monthly production of 4,000 units. Northeast Division can acquire the product from an alternate supplier for $31 per unit or from Southwest Division for a transfer price of $30 plus $2 per unit in transportation costs.
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- a. What are the costs and benefits of the alternatives available to Southwest Division and Northeast Division with respect to the transfer of Southwest Division’s product? Assume that Southwest Division can market all that it can produce.
- b. How would your answer change if Southwest Division had idle capacity sufficient to cover all of Northeast Division’s needs?
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Chapter 15 Solutions
Fundamentals Of Cost Accounting (6th Edition)
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