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This document contains exam questions on cost concepts, including sunk costs, opportunity costs, and weighted-average cost of capital. It helps students prepare for exams by providing multiple-choice questions and detailed explanations.
What's inside
- Sunk costs and their irrelevance in decision-making
- Opportunity costs and their role in financial decisions
- Weighted-average cost of capital calculation
- Relevant costs in capital investment decisions
- Impact of company-wide cost of capital on investment decisions
Who it is for: Students preparing for accounting or business finance exams. (Undergraduate)
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Summary
Cost concepts in accounting and business finance are covered. Students get practice with exam questions and solutions on these topics.
Sunk costs
Sunk costs are past costs that cannot be changed. They are not relevant in current or future financial decisions. Examples are given.
Opportunity costs
Opportunity costs are benefits given up when one choice is made over another. They are important in financial decision-making. Examples are given.
Weighted-average cost of capital
The weighted-average cost of capital is calculated. Questions ask about its implications for different divisions of a company. Examples are given.
Fixed and variable costs
Fixed and variable costs are explained. Questions ask about their behaviour when production levels change. Examples are given.
Key terms
- Sunk costs
- Costs already incurred that cannot be changed by current decisions.
- Opportunity costs
- Benefits given up when one course of action is chosen over another.
- Weighted-average cost of capital
- The average cost of all the different sources of capital a company uses.
- Fixed costs
- Costs that do not change with the level of production.
- Variable costs
- Costs that change in proportion to the level of production.
- High-low method
- A method to estimate fixed and variable costs from two data points.
Questions this document helps with
- What are sunk costs and why are they irrelevant in financial decisions?
- How do opportunity costs affect financial decision-making?
- What is the weighted-average cost of capital and how is it calculated?
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