Cost Management
Cost Management
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ISBN: 9781259917028
Author: BLOCHER, Edward
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education,
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Describe the meaning of relevant costs and provide examples for the decision of repairing or replacing a piece of equipment.

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Describe the meaning of relevant costs and provide examples for the decision of repairing or replacing a piece of equipment:

Relevant cost: Relevant cost is a future cost that fluctuates across alternatives. The future cost is a relevant cost and past cost is an irrelevant cost.

The relevant costs for replacing equipment would include the following:

  • Purchasing cost,
  • Installation cost,
  • Operating costs of the new equipment,
  • Disposal costs of the old equipment,
  • Repair costs of the old equipment, and so on.

Hence, the purchase price of the old equipment would not be relevant to the decision.

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