Financial and Managerial Accounting
Financial and Managerial Accounting
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ISBN: 9781259726705
Author: John J Wild, Ken W. Shaw, Barbara Chiappetta Fundamental Accounting Principles
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 23, Problem 7DQ
To determine

Sunk costs:

Sunk costs can be referred to as the outflows of cash which have already occurred, and no further decision can be taken to recover them. Such types of costs are required to be ignored while making decisions.

The reason why sunk costs are irrelevant in deciding whether to sell a product in its present condition or to make it into a new product through additional processing.

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