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Accutron, a Large Manufacturing Company, Has Several Autonomous Divisions That

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Accutron, a large manufacturing company, has several autonomous divisions that sell their products in perfectly competitive external markets as well as internally to the other divisions of the company. Top management expects each of its divisional managers to take actions that will maximize the organization's goal as well as their own goals. Top management also promotes a sustained level of management effort of all of its divisional managers. Under these circumstances, for products exchanged between divisions, the transfer price that will generally lead to optimal decisions for Accutron would be a transfer price equal to the: (CIA adapted)

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