EXERCISE 8-21 (CONTINUED)

3. It appears that the local commercial market is losing money and the company would be better off

dropping this market segment. However, as discussed in Problem 8-29, not all of the costs included

above may be avoidable. If more than $77,625 of the total costs of $257,625 is not avoidable, then

the company really isn’t losing money on the local commercial market and the segment should not be

dropped. These issues will be discussed in more depth in Chapters 12 and 13.

Problem 8-29 (30 minutes)