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question 76

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Use the information for the question(s) below. As an oil refiner,you are able to produce $76 worth of unleaded gasoline from one barrel of Alaska North Slope (ANS) crude oil.Because of its lower sulfur content,you can produce $77 worth of unleaded gasoline from one barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude.
-Another oil refiner is offering to trade you 10,150 Bbls of Alaska North Slope (ANS) crude oil for 10,000 Bbls of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil.Assuming you currently have 10,000 Bbls of WTI crude,what should you do?

• A)Sell 10,000 Bbls WTI crude on the market and use the proceeds to purchase and refine ANS crude.
• B)Do nothing,refine the 10,000 Bbls of WTI crude.
• C)Trade the 10,000 Bbls WTI crude with the other refiner and refine the 10,150 Bbls of ANS crude.
• D)Trade the 10,000 Bbls WTI crude with the other refiner and then sell the 10,150 Bbls of ANS crude.

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Definitions:

Conversion Costs

The total expenses of direct labor together with manufacturing overheads spent in transforming raw materials into completed products.

Process Cost Accounting System

A bookkeeping mechanism for distributing costs among similar items that are produced in large scale and without interruption.

Equivalent Units of Production

A concept in cost accounting used to assign costs to partially completed goods, calculated by taking the number of units in the production process and converting them into a number of completed units.

Conversion Cost

The combined total of labor and manufacturing overhead costs necessary to convert raw materials into finished products.