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Incremental Analysis

Managerial Accounting Fifth Edition Weygandt Kimmel Kieso

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study objectives
1. 2. Identify the steps in managements decision-making process. Describe the concept of incremental analysis.

3.
4. 5. 6. 7.
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Identify the relevant costs in accepting an order at a special price.

Identify the relevant costs in a make-or-buy decision. Identify the relevant costs in determining whether to sell or process materials further. Identify the relevant costs to be considered in retaining or replacing equipment. Identify the relevant costs in deciding whether to eliminate an unprofitable segment.

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Managements Decision-Making Process

Important management function. Does not always follow a set pattern.

Decisions vary in scope, urgency, and importance.

Steps usually involved in process include:
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SO 1 Identify the steps in managements decision-making process.

Managements Decision-Making Process

Considers both financial and non-financial information.

Financial information includes revenues and costs as well as their effect on overall profitability. Non-financial information includes effect on employee turnover, the environment, or overall company image.

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SO 1 Identify the steps in managements decision-making process.

Managements Decision-Making Process

Incremental Analysis Approach
Decisions involve a choice among alternative actions. Process used to identify the financial data that change under alternative courses of action.
Both costs and revenues may vary or Only revenues may vary or Only costs may vary
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SO 2 Describe the concept of incremental analysis.

Managements Decision-Making Process

How Incremental Analysis Works
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Comparison of Alternative B with Alternative A:

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Incremental revenue is $15,000 less under Alternative B. Incremental cost savings of $20,000 is realized. Alternative B produces $5,000 more net income.
SO 2 Describe the concept of incremental analysis.

Managements Decision-Making Process

How Incremental Analysis Works
Important concepts used in incremental analysis:
Relevant cost. Opportunity cost. Sunk cost.

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SO 2 Describe the concept of incremental analysis.

Managements Decision-Making Process

How Incremental Analysis Works
Sometimes involves changes that seem contrary to intuition. Variable costs sometimes do not change under alternatives.

Fixed costs sometimes change between alternatives.

Incremental analysis not the same as CVP analysis.

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SO 2 Describe the concept of incremental analysis.

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Review Question
Incremental analysis is the process of identifying the financial data that

a. Do not change under alternative courses of action. b. Change under alternative courses of action. c. Are mixed under alternative courses of action. d. None of the above.
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SO 2 Describe the concept of incremental analysis.

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Types of Incremental Analysis

1. Accept an order at a special price.

2. Make or buy.
3. Sell or process further.

4. Retain or replace equipment.

5. Eliminate an unprofitable business segment. 6. Allocate limited resources.

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Types of Incremental Analysis

Accept an Order at a Special Price
Obtain additional business by making a major price concession to a specific customer. Assumes that sales of products in other markets are not affected by special order.

Assumes that company is not operating at full capacity.

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SO 3 Identify the relevant costs in accepting an order at a special price.

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Accept an Order at a Special Price
Illustration: Sunbelt Company produces 100,000 automatic blenders per month, which is 80 percent of plant capacity. Variable manufacturing costs are $8 per unit. Fixed manufacturing costs are $400,000, or $4 per unit. The blenders are normally sold directly to retailers at $20 each. Sunbelt has an offer from Mexico Co. (a foreign wholesaler) to purchase an additional 2,000 blenders at $11 per unit. Acceptance of the offer would not affect normal sales of the product, and the additional units can be manufactured without increasing plant capacity. What should management do?
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SO 3 Identify the relevant costs in accepting an order at a special price.

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Accept an Order at a Special Price
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Fixed costs do not change since within existing capacity thus fixed costs are not relevant.
Variable manufacturing costs and expected revenues change thus both are relevant to the decision.
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SO 3 Identify the relevant costs in accepting an order at a special price.

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Make or Buy
Illustration: Baron Company incurs the following annual costs in producing 25,000 ignition switches for motor scooters.
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Instead of making its own switches, Baron Company might purchase the ignition switches at a price of $8 per unit. What should management do?
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SO 4 Identify the relevant costs in a make-or-buy decision.

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Make or Buy
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Total manufacturing cost is $1 higher than purchase price. Must absorb at least $50,000 of fixed costs under either option.
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SO 4 Identify the relevant costs in a make-or-buy decision.

Types of Incremental Analysis

Make or Buy Opportunity Cost
The potential benefit that may be obtained from
following an alternative course of action.

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SO 4 Identify the relevant costs in a make-or-buy decision.

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Make or Buy Opportunity Cost
Illustration: Assume that through buying the switches, Baron Company can use the released productive capacity to generate additional income of $28,000 from producing a different product. This lost income is an additional cost of continuing to make the switches in the make-or-buy decision.
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Solution on notes page

SO 4 Identify the relevant costs in a make-or-buy decision.

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Review Question
In a make-or-buy decision, relevant costs are: a. Manufacturing costs that will be saved. b. The purchase price of the units. c. Opportunity costs. d. All of the above.

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Solution on notes page

SO 4 Identify the relevant costs in a make-or-buy decision.

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Types of Incremental Analysis

Sell or Process Further
May have option to sell product at a given point in production or to process further and sell at a higher price. Decision Rule: Process further as long as the incremental revenue from such processing exceeds the incremental processing costs.
SO 5 Identify the relevant costs in determining whether to sell or process materials further.

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Sell or Process Further - Single-Product Case
Illustration: Woodmasters Inc. makes tables. The cost to manufacture an unfinished table is $35. The selling price per
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unfinished unit is $50. Management concludes

that some of the

unused capacity may be used to finish the tables and sell them at $60 per unit. For a finished table, direct materials will increase $2 and direct labor

costs will increase $4. Variable manufacturing overhead costs

will increase by $2.40 (60% of direct labor). No increase is anticipated in fixed manufacturing overhead.
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SO 5

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Sell or Process Further - Single-Product Case
The incremental analysis on a per unit basis is as follows.
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Should Woodmasters sell or process further? further.

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SO 5 Identify the relevant costs in determining whether to sell or process materials further.

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Sell or Process Further - Multiple-Product Case
Joint product situation for Marais Creamery. Cream and skim milk are products that result from the processing of raw milk.
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Joint product costs are sunk costs and thus not relevant to the sell-or-process further decision.

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Sell or Process Further - Multiple-Product Case
Cost and revenue data per day.
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Determine whether the company should simply sell the cream and skim milk, or process them further into cottage cheese and condensed milk. SO 5

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Sell or Process Further - Multiple-Product Case
Analysis of whether to sell cream or process into cottage cheese.
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Marais should or should not process the cream further?

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Solution on notes page

SO 5 Identify the relevant costs in determining whether to sell or process materials further.

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Sell or Process Further - Multiple-Product Case
Analysis of whether to sell skim milk or process into condensed milk. Illustration 7-13

Note the joint costs are irrelevant in deciding whether to sell or process further.
Solution on notes page

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SO 5 Identify the relevant costs in determining whether to sell or process materials further.

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Review Question
The decision rule is a sell-or-process-further decision:
Process further as long as the incremental revenue from processing exceeds: a. Incremental processing costs. b. Variable processing costs. c. Fixed processing costs. d. No correct answer is given.
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SO 6 Identify the relevant costs to be considered in retaining or replacing equipment.

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Retain or Replace Equipment
Illustration: Jeffcoat Company is considering replacing a factory machine with a new machine. Assessment of replacement of factory machine: Book Value Cost Remaining useful life Salvage value Old Machine $ 40,000 four years -0New Machine $ 120,000 four years -0-

Variable manufacturing costs decrease from $160,000 to $125,000 if new machine purchased.
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SO 6 Identify the relevant costs to be considered in retaining or replacing equipment.

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Retain or Replace Equipment
Prepare the incremental analysis for the four-year period.
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Retain or Replace?
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SO 6 Identify the relevant costs to be considered in retaining or replacing equipment.

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Retain or Replace Equipment
Additional Considerations
The book value of old machine does not affect the decision.
Book value is a sunk cost. Costs which cannot be changed by future decisions (sunk cost) are not relevant in incremental analysis. However, any trade-in allowance or cash disposal value of the existing asset is relevant.
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SO 6 Identify the relevant costs to be considered in retaining or replacing equipment.

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Eliminate an Unprofitable Segment
Key: Focus on Relevant Costs. Consider effect on related product lines. Fixed costs allocated to the unprofitable segment must be absorbed by the other segments.

Net income may decrease when an unprofitable segment is eliminated.

Decision Rule: Retain the segment unless fixed costs eliminated exceed contribution margin lost.
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SO 7 Identify the relevant costs in deciding whether to eliminate an unprofitable segment.

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Eliminate an Unprofitable Segment
Illustration: Martina Company manufactures three models

of tennis rackets:
Segment income data Profitable lines: Pro and Master Unprofitable line: Champ

Should Champ be eliminated?

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SO 7 Identify the relevant costs in deciding whether to eliminate an unprofitable segment.

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Eliminate an Unprofitable Segment
Prepare income data after eliminating Champ product line. Assume fixed costs are allocated 2/3 to Pro and 1/3 to Master.
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Total income is decreased by $10,000.

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SO 7 Identify the relevant costs in deciding whether to eliminate an unprofitable segment.

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Eliminate an Unprofitable Segment
Incremental analysis of Champ provided the same results: Do Not Eliminate Champ
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SO 7 Identify the relevant costs in deciding whether to eliminate an unprofitable segment.

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Review Question
If an unprofitable segment is eliminated:
a. Net income will always increase. b. Variable expenses of the eliminated segment will have to be absorbed by other segments. c. Fixed expenses allocated to the eliminated segment will have to be absorbed by other segments.

d. Net income will always decrease.

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SO 7 Identify the relevant costs in deciding whether to eliminate an unprofitable segment.

Other Considerations in Decision Making

Qualitative Factors
Potential effects of decision on existing employees and the community. Cost savings that may be obtained from outsourcing or from eliminating a plant should be weighed against these qualitative attributes. Cost of lost morale that might result.

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SO 7 Identify the relevant costs in deciding whether to eliminate an unprofitable segment.

Other Considerations in Decision Making

Relationship of Incremental Anaysis and Activity-Based Costing
Many companies have shifted to activity-based costing
(ABC). The primary reason for using ABC is that it results in

a more accurate allocation of overhead.

ABC will result in better identification of relevant costs and, therefore, better incremental analysis.

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SO 7 Identify the relevant costs in deciding whether to eliminate an unprofitable segment.

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 Over a lifetime of work, high-school graduates earn an average of $1.2 million, associates degree holders earn an

average of $1.6 million, and people with bachelors degrees

earn about $2.1 million. A year of tuition at a public four-year college costs about $8,655, and a year of tuition at a public two-year college costs about $1,359.
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 There has also been considerable research on other, lesstangible benefits of posthigh-school education. For example, some have suggested that there is a relationship between higher education and good health. Research also suggests that college-educated people are more optimistic. About 600,000 students drop out of four-year colleges

each year.

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Each year many students decide to drop out of school. Many of them never return. Suppose that you are working two jobs and going to college and that you are not making ends meet. Your grades are suffering due to your lack of available study time. You feel depressed. Should you drop out of school?
YES: You can always go back to school. If your grades are bad, and you are depressed, what good is school doing you anyway? NO: Once you drop out, it is very hard to get enough momentum to go back. Dropping out will dramatically reduce your long-term opportunities. It is better to stay in school, even if you take only one class per semester.
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