EXERCISE 8-21 (CONTINUED)

5. At most, Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is making only $2.25 on the Flying N

Ranch job. If more than $2.25 of the $13.50 in Office Expenses are ac-

tually avoidable if the job were not accepted, then the job is actually

losing money.

There is a point at which travel costs eat up all of the profit from a job.

With the company’s current policy of charging a flat fee for carpet clean-

ing irrespective of how far away the client is from the office, there

clearly is some point at which jobs should be turned down. (What if a

potential customer is located in Florida?)

Problem 8-25 (continued)