Differential Analysis: The Key to Decision Making

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Differential Analysis: The Key to Decision Making
  1. Relevant costs/benefits & irrelevant costs/beneifts
    1. Relevant costs and benefits should be considered when making decisions
      1. Irrelevant costs and benefits should be ignored when making decisions
      2. Differential analysis
        1. Focusing on the future costs and benefits that differ between the alternatives
        2. Sunk costs
          1. A cost that has already been incurred and cannot be changed regardless of what a manager decides to do
            1. Sunk costs are always irrelevant when choosing among alternatives
            2. Opportunity cost
              1. The potential benefit that is given up when one alternative is selected over another
                1. Relevant costs that must be considered is every decision a manager makes
                2. Make or buy decision
                  1. Decision whether to carry out one of the activities in the value chain internally or to buy externally from a supplier
                  2. Special order
                    1. One-time order that is not considered part of the company's normal ongoing business
                    2. Volume trade-off decisions
                      1. Comapanies must trade off, or sacrifice production of some products in favor of others in an effort to maximize profits
                        1. Companies are forced to make these decisions when they do not have enough capacity to produce all of the products and sales volumes demanded by their customers
                        2. Constraints
                          1. Anything that prevents you from getting more of what you want
                            1. Managers can increase profits by producing the products with the highest contribution margin per unit of the constrained resource
                              1. Managers can also increase profits by increasing the capacity of the bottleneck operation
                              2. Joint products
                                1. Two or more products that are produced from a common input
                                2. Adding and dropping product lines and other segments
                                  1. Costs can be analyzed by either Cost Analysis or a Comparative format income statement
                                    1. Managers must be careful of allocated fixed costs that may make a product line look less profitable than it really is
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