Cameron Industries Is Purchasing a New Chemical Vapor Depositor in Order

question 77

Multiple Choice

Cameron Industries is purchasing a new chemical vapor depositor in order to make silicon chips. It will cost $6 million to buy the machine and $10,000 to have it delivered and installed. Building a clean room in the plant for the machine will cost an additional $3 million. The machine is expected to have a working life of six years. Which of these activities will be reported as an operating expense?

• A)the delivery and install cost only
• B)the cost of the depositor only
• C)the redesign of the plant only
• D)the delivery and install cost and the cost of the depositor

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Definitions:

Perfect Substitutes

Goods that can serve the same purpose perfectly, where consumers are indifferent between them and will select based on price.

Giffen Good

A product that paradoxically sees an increase in demand as its price increases, violating the basic law of demand due to the income effect overshadowing the substitution effect.

Inferior Good

A type of good whose demand decreases as the income of consumers increases, opposite of a normal good.

Substitution Effect

The change in consumption patterns due to a change in the relative price of goods, leading consumers to substitute away from higher-priced goods toward lower-priced ones.