
(a)
Transfer Price: It refers to the price to be used for recording the transactions for the goods transferred from one division to another division of a company.
To explain: the reason for the company’s top management might want the divisions to start doing more business with one another.
(b)
To explain: the conditions under which a buying division should be forced to buy from an internal supplier and the conditions under which a selling division should be forced to sell to an internal division rather than to an outside customer.
(c)
To explain: whether forcing B Division to sell to W Division would be a good solution for B Division, W Division or the Company.
(d)
To provide: the two other possible solutions to this problem and discuss the merits and drawbacks of each solution.

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