Albright Chemical Company currently operates three manufacturing plants inColorado, Utah, and Arizona. Annual carbon emissions for these plants in the first quarter of 2018 are120,000metric tons per quarter (or 480,000 metric tons in 2018). Albright management is investigating improved manufacturing techniques that will reduce annual carbon emissions to below 456,000metric tons so that the company can meet Environmental Protection Agency guidelines by 2019. Costs and benefits are as follows:

Total cost to reduce carbon emissions $9 per metric ton reduced in 2019 below 480,000 metric tons

Fine in 2019 if EPA guidelines are not met $423,000

Albright Management has chosen to use Kaizen budgeting to achieve its goal for carbon emissions.

1.	If Albright reduces emissions by 2 % each quarter, beginning with the second quarter of 2018, will the company reach its goal of 456,000 metric tons by the end of 2019?
2.	What would be the net financial cost or benefit of their plan? Ignore the time value of money.
3.	What factors other than cost might weigh into Albright's decision to carry out this plan?

Requirement 1. If Albright reduces emissions by 2 % each quarter, beginning with the second quarter of 2018, will the company reach its goal of 456,000 metric tons by the end of

2019? (Round all intermediary calculations and the amounts you input in the cells to the nearest dollar.) Begin by calculating the quarterly emissions for each quarter through the end of 2019.

	Quarterly emissions
Quarter	(metric tons)
2018 Q1
2018 Q2
2018 Q3
2018 Q4
2019 Q1
2019 Q2
2019 Q3
2019 Q4

Will the company reach its goal of 456,000 metric tons by the end of 2019?

Yes, Albright will / No, Albright will not reach its goal of 456,000 metric tons by the end of 2019.

Requirement 2. What would be the net financial cost or benefit of their plan? Ignore the time value of money. (Use parentheses or a minus sign to show a net benefit.)

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Net cost (benefit) of plan _________________

Requirement 3. What factors other than cost might weigh into Albright's decision to carry out this plan?

Avoidance of the EPA fine

should / should not be the company's sole motivation in carrying out this plan. Reducing carbon emissions

has no impact on the environment

is good for the environment, and will contribute to a smaller impact on climate change / is too costly and may not contribute to a smaller impact on climate change.

Albright may be able to share this plan with the public to gain favorable publicity / petition the EPA for a waiver.

Albright could choose to end this plan at the end of 2019, and still avoid the EPA fine / pay the EPA fine; however, company management has no obligation to reduce carbon emissions should / strive to continue reducing carbon emissions if they have the technology to do so.