A Company Has the Choice of Either Selling 1,000 Defective

question 63

Multiple Choice

A company has the choice of either selling 1,000 defective units as scrap or rebuilding them. The company could sell the defective units as they are for $4.00 per unit. Alternatively, it could rebuild them with incremental costs of $1.00 per unit for materials, $2.00 per unit for labor, and $1.50 per unit for overhead, and then sell the rebuilt units for $8.00 each. What should the company do?

• A) Sell the units as scrap.
• B) Rebuild the units.
• C) It does not matter because both alternatives have the same result.
• D) Neither sell nor rebuild because both alternatives produce a loss. Instead, the company should store the units permanently.
• E) Throw the units away.

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Definitions:

Marketing Costs

Expenses related to promoting and selling products or services, including advertising and market research.

Factory Overheads

Factory overheads consist of all the indirect costs involved in manufacturing, including but not limited to utilities, rent, and salaries not directly tied to production activities.

Variable Cost

Expenses that change in proportion to the level of production or sales volume.

Straight-Line Depreciation

A method of allocating the cost of a tangible asset over its useful life in equal annual increments.