Question

3. Keim, Inc. manufactures baseball gloves that normally sell for $40 each. Keim currently has 1,000 defective gloves in inventory that have $30 of materials, labor, and overhead assigned to each glove. The defective gloves can either be completely repaired at a cost of $25 per glove or sold as is at a reduced price of $18 per glove. Keim would be better off by: a. $3,000 to sell

Answer 1

selling the defective gloves as they are results in a $3,000 higher gain

Step-by-step explanation:

the manufacturing costs of the defective gloves should be considered a sunk cost since they cannot be recovered:

alternative 1, sell defective gloves = $18 x 1,000 = $18,000 gain

alternative 2, repair the gloves and sell them at normal price = ($40 - $25) x 1,000 = $15,000 gain

alternative 1 (selling the defective gloves as they are) results in a $3,000 higher gain