Consider a decentralized company that has 22 divisions: Gold and Silver.

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Consider a decentralized company that has 22 divisions: Gold and Silver.

The information for ????Gold is the following:

 

  • Fixed and variable costs are £5050 per unit.
  • The intermediary product produced by Gold will be transferred to Silver to create the final product.
  • Gold does not sell the intermediary product to external customers.

 

The information for ??????Silver is the following:

 

  • Fixed and variable costs of processing the intermediary product equal £8080 per unit.
  • The final product will be sold by Silver to external customers for £150150.

 

Considering that managers of the company have established a transfer price policy of full cost plus 12%12%, which of the following statements is true?

 

a.

Given the current transfer pricing policy, managers from Gold do not have incentives to minimize costs.

b.

Silver will sell the intermediary product to Gold for £5656.

c.

Gold will have a profit of £1414 per unit.

d.

None of the answers is true. 

 

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