Question

A company has a process that results in 26000 pounds of Product A that can be sold for $8 per pound. An alternative would be to process Product A further at a cost of $174200 and then sell it for $14 per pound. Should management sell Product A now or should Product A be processed further and then sold? What is the effect of the action? Sell now, the company will be better off by $18200. Process further, the company will be better off by $156000. Process further, the company will be better off by $18200. Sell now, the company will be better off by $174200.

Answer 1

Sell now, the company will be better off by $18200

Step-by-step explanation:

The computation is shown below:

Sales value after processing the product (26,000 × $14) $364,000

Less: sales value (26,000 × $8) $208,000

Increase in advantage due to processing $156,000

Less: processing cost ($174,200)

Net disadvantage of processing the product ($18,200)

As we can see the final answer comes in negative which means the product should be sold now