Northwest Hospital is a full-service hospital that provides everything from major surgery and emergency room care to
Question:
Northwest Hospital is a full-service hospital that provides everything from major surgery and emergency room care to outpatient clinics. The hospital’s Radiology Department is considering replacing an old inefficient X-ray machine with a state-of-the-art digital X-ray machine. The new machine would provide higher quality X-rays in less time and at a lower cost per W-ray. It would also require less power and would use a color laser printer to produce easily readable X-ray images. Instead of investing the funds in the new X-ray machine, the Laboratory Department is lobbying the hospital’s management to but a new DNA analyzer.
Required:
For each of the items below, indicate by placing an X in the appropriate column whether it should be considered a differential cost, an opportunity cost, or a sunk cost in the decision to replace the old X-ray machine with a new machine. If none of the categories apply for a particular item, leave all columns blank.
Item | Differential Item | Opportunity Cost | Sunk Cost | |
Ex. | Cost of X-ray film used in the old machine…………… | X | ||
1. | Cost of the old X-ray machine………………………… | |||
2. | The salary of the head of the Radiology Department… | |||
3. | The salary of the head of the Pediatrics Department…. | |||
4. | Cost of the new color laser printer……………………. | |||
5. | Rent on the space occupied by Radiology……………. | |||
6. | The cost of maintaining the old machine……………… | |||
7. | Benefits from a new DNA analyzer…………………... | |||
8. | Cost of electricity to run the X-ray machines…………. |
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Managerial Accounting
ISBN: 978-0697789938
13th Edition
Authors: Ray H. Garrison, Eric W. Noreen, Peter C. Brewer