Introduction to Managerial Accounting Jeannie M. Folk Ray H. Garrison Eric Noreen
Relevant Costs for Decision Making
Chapter Outline- Cost Concepts for Decision Making
- Identifying Relevant Costs and Benefits
- Different Costs for Different Purposes
- Sunk Costs Are Not Relevant Costs
- Book Value of Old Equipment
- Future Costs that Do Not Differ Are Not Relevant Costs
- An Example of Irrelevant Future Costs
- Why Isolate Relevant Costs?
- Adding and Dropping Product Lines and Other Segments
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- An Illustration of Cost Analysis
- A Comparative Format
- Beware of Allocated Fixed Costs
- The Make or Buy Decision
- The Matter of Opportunity Cost
- Special Orders
- Pricing New Products
- Utilization of a Constrained Resource
- Contribution in Relation to a Constrained Resource
- Managing Constraints
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