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Edition 6ISBN: 978-0078025532
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Cost Management 6th Edition by Edward Blocher,David Stout ,Paul Juras,Gary Cokins

Edition 6ISBN: 978-0078025532
Exercise 40
By-Products and Decision-Making Strategy
Lowman Gourmet Products produces a wide variety of gourmet coffees (sold in pounds of roasted beans), jams, jellies, and condiments such as spicy mustard sauce. The firm has a reputation as a high-quality source of these products. Lowman sells the products through a mail-order catalog that is revised twice a year. Joe, the president, is interested in developing a new line of products to complement the coffees. The manufacture of the jams and jellies presently pro­duces an excess of fruit liquid that is not used in these products. The firm is now selling excess liquid to other firms as flavoring for canned fruit products. Joe is planning to refine the liquid and add other ingredients to it to produce a coffee-flavoring product instead of selling the liquid. He figures that the cost of producing the jams and jellies, and therefore the fruit liquid, is irrelevant; the only relevant concern is the lost sales to the canneries and the cost of the additional ingredients, processing, and packaging.
Required Does this plan make financial and strategic sense
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