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Describe what is meant by Incremental Analysis? Briefly describe an example from a situation you know or have read about?

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Incremental analysis is a practice of looking only at what changes with a decision. That is, what is the incremental change to revenue and what is the incremental change to expenses and therefore, what is the incremental change to profits. Incremental analysis views only the relevant costs and revenues in a decision, those that will change between alternatives. ...

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