17. Companies considering new cost-cutting manufacturing processes often compare the projected results of making the investment against the alternative of not making the investment with costs, selling prices, and share of market remaining constant.
Which of the following, assuming that each is a realistic possibility, constitutes the most serious disadvantage for companies of using the method above for evaluating the financial benefit of new manufacturing processes?
(A) The costs of materials required by the new process might not be known with certainty.
(B) In several years interest rates might go down, reducing the interest costs of borrowing money to pay for the investment.
(C) Some cost-cutting processes might require such expensive investments that there would be no net gain for many years, until the investment was paid for by savings in the manufacturing process.
(D) Competitors that do invest in a new process might reduce their selling prices and thus take market share away from companies that do not.
(E) The period of year chosen for averaging out the cost of the investment might be somewhat longer or shorter, thus affecting the result.
看过前面的讨论帖了,可是仍然想破头也没有想明白……
首先,既然要在 costs, selling prices, and share of market 这三个方面比较两个项目的结果,那这三个因素又怎么可能remain constant呢?
其次,撇开上面这个疑问不说,如果像有些前辈们说的那样,原文忽视了这三个因素会变化,所以包含了变化的D答案起到了weaken作用,可是B不是也包含了变化吗?costs下降了呀~~
再次,如果按照这样的思路理解,那么C、E又是怎么与原文无关或者support的呢?
哭求NN解答!
个人理解
公司上新的削减成本的生产线的时候,会比较做投资后所产生的结果和不做类似投资保
持现状时候的结果。主要比较(成本,售价和市场份额),不做投资的时候(即保持成
本,售价和市场份额不变的)
问以下,if ture,那这样的比较方式有劣势。
D:售价和市场份额的反比关系,很难通过这样的比较说(特别是一个基数是涨,一个基
数是跌)哪个是好哪个是坏。
A:是不是确切的知道对于制造新的产品线所要使用的新材料的成本,本身并不影响上述
比较方法的成立。这个成本只是众多成本因素之一。不足以削弱这样的比较方法。
B:说的不是比较方法本身的内容,牵涉进了利息这个东西,这个东西在比较方法里面没
有。无关
C:偿还引进生产线本身的成本的方式,不属于讨论的范围。生产线的成本是文章讨论的
内容,但怎么偿还不是比较方法的内容
E:把成本平均其选择的年数,也不是比较方法的内容。
open to discuss...
ABCE造成了核算的困难,但并不彻底否决了将做和不做相比的核算办法。
D说明了核算办法未考虑到的外界因素----side effect----竞争对手的变化----也就是说,D举出了一种特殊情况:当竞争对手也这么做的时候,你即使这么做花钱更多,你也要做。
从管理角度说,这个其实是典型的consulting思维,为什么产品卖得多了却挣地少了?那是因为markup小了。而导致这种情况产生很可能是因为竞争加剧,整个行业缩水。
有点象:不上ERP等死,上ERP找死---》因为有等死的必然(D选项),所以决定找死也是合理的了。
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