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Primus is a firm of consultants that focuses on process reengineering and quality improvement initiatives. Northwood Industries has asked Primus to conduct a study aimed at improving on-time delivery. Normal practice for Primus is to bill for consultant time at standard rates plus actual travel costs and estimated overhead. However, Northwood has offered a flat $75,000 for the job. Currently, Primus has excess capacity so it can take on the Northwood job without turning down other business and without hiring additional staff. If normal practices were followed, the bill would be:

Overhead (computer costs, rent, utilities, paper, copying, etc.) is determined at the start of the year by dividing estimated annual overhead costs ($2,400,000) by total estimated nonpartner hours (80,000 hours). Approximately 20 percent of the total amount is variable costs. All Primus employees receive a fixed wage (i.e., there is no compensation for overtime). Annual compensation in the previous year amounted to the following:

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What will be the effect on company profit related to accepting the Northwood Industries job? What qualitative factors should be considered in the decision whether to accept the job or not?

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Hi there! Below is my response to your posting. As I previously commented, there are a few key items I don't see in this problem that would help give a quantitative answer. Per the posting, I don't see what the standard consulting rate is or the number of hours estimated for the job. In addition, we don't know if travel is expected, and if so, how much. The problem may be written this way by design, but just wanted to put that out there in case you did have further detail you can add to the post.

Fixed costs in this problem can also be considered sunk costs, which mean the costs would be incurred whether or not the job is taken. Therefore, they should not be considered when making the decision whether or not to take the job. In contrast, variable costs should be considered when ...

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