Quik Press Inc. offers one-day dry cleaning. At the beginning of 2015, the company purchased a mechanized

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Quik Press Inc. offers one-day dry cleaning. At the beginning of 2015, the company purchased a mechanized pressing machine. The owner of the company, Jill Jabowski, recently returned from an industry equipment exhibition where she saw a computerized pressing machine demonstrated. She was impressed with the machine's speed, efficiency, and quality of output. Upon returning from the exhibition, she asked her purchasing agent to collect price and operating cost data on the new pressing machine. In addition, she asked the company's accountant to provide her with cost data on the company's pressing machine. This information is presented below:

Quik Press Inc. offers one-day dry cleaning. At the beginning

Annual revenues are $200,000, and selling and administrative expenses are $24,000 regardless of which pressing machine is used. If it replaces the old machine now, at the beginning of 2016, Quik Press will be able to sell it for $10,000.
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(a) Determine any gain or loss if the old pressing machine is replaced.
(b) Prepare a five-year summarized income statement for each of the following assumptions:
1. The old machine is kept.
2. The old machine is replaced.
(c) Using incremental analysis, determine whether the company should replace the old pressing machine.
(d) Write a memo to Jill Jabowski explaining why any gain or loss should be ignored in the decision to replace the old pressing machine.

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Managerial Accounting Tools for Business Decision Making

ISBN: 978-1118856994

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Authors: Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel, Donald E. Kieso, Ibrahim M. Aly

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