BUS 207 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Sunk Costs, Form 10-Q, Reading Company
1 Apr 2015
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In its new plant, company abc has installed a flexible manufacturing system to produce locomotives. Flexible manufacturing systems, which are very sophisticated forms of factory automation, operate with a minimum of manual intervention. They are integrated systems of machines under full programmable control. According to abc, the new system compares as follows with the old one: old system. 2. suppose the production function for widgets is given by: Q = kl - 0. 8k2 - 0. 2l2 where q represents the quantity of widgets produced, k represents the annual capital input and l represents annual labor input. a) Acme coal paid to lease a railcar from the reading railroad. And its sunk costs (ie: its unrecoverable fixed costs): one day after signing the lease, acme realizes that it has no use for the railcare. A farmer has a bumper crop of corn and has offered to sublease the railcare from acme at a price of ,500.
