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heffield Corp. has several outdated computers that cost a total of $19400 and could be sold as scrap for $6000. They could be updated for an additional $2500 and sold. If Sheffield updates the computers and sells them, net income will increase by $9000. What amount would be considered sunk costs? $19,400
| Sunk cost means, the cost which has been already incurred. | |||||||||||||
| It can be stated as a historical cost. | |||||||||||||
| In this question Sunk ckst is $19,400. | |||||||||||||
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Cost of the Outdated computers = $,19,400 |
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Scrap value = $6,000 |
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Increase in net income = $9,000 |
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If High-tech computers are updated, then net income will increase by $9,000 |
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If the computers are updated, then the scrap value will be the forgone cost which is also called the opportunity cost. |
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Hence, this cost must be added to the additional cost to determine the selling price. |
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We know that the selling price is calculated as |
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| Selling price = Cost +Net income | |||||||||||||
| = | (6000+2500)+9000 | ||||||||||||
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17500 | ||||||||||||