Determine most profitable final product (Learning Objective 7)

Chocolite processes cocoa beans into cocoa powder at a processing cost of \(\$ 10,000\) per batch. Chocolite can sell the cocoa powder as is, or it can process the cocoa powder further into chocolate syrup or boxed assorted chocolates. Once processed, each batch of cocoa beans would result in the following sales revenue:

The cost of transforming the cocoa powder into chocolate syrup would be \(\$ 70,000\). Likewise, the company would incur \(\$ 180,000\) to transform the cocoa powder into boxed assorted chocolates. The company president has decided to make boxed assorted chocolates owing to its high sales value and to the fact that the \(\$ 10,000\) cost of processing cocoa beans "eats up" most of the cocoa powder profits. Has the president made the right or wrong decision? Explain your answer. Be sure to include the correct financial analysis in your response.

Cocoa powder..... $15,000 Chocolate syrup..... $100,000 Boxed assorted chocolates...... $200,000