Cascade’s management is considering the proposal from FHP. There
are many issues involving strategy,cost, risk, and capacity.
Prepare a recommendation to management. Use the following questions
to guide
your analysis.
6b. At what point would management be indifferent between the scenarios illustrated in questions 4 and 5? Based on your analysis, would you recommend adding capacity by purchasing an additional rig or by utilizing the services of an independent contractor? Why?
Question 1: Assume Cascade could service the contract with existing equipment. Use Exhibit 1 to identify the relevant costs concerning the acceptance of FHP’s request to add two additional loads per week. Which costs are not relevant? Why?
Answer: Here the assumption is that Cascade is NOT going to purchase new equipment to meet FHP's proposal. With this, there is NO additional cost for Cascade for buying new equipment. So the answer to the question - which costs are not relevant?
Additional purchase cost for equipment is not relevant here. Why - because the presumption is that Cascade uses the existing equipment to cater to FHP's proposal.
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