Cost Accounting
Bill Watts, president of Western Publications, accepts a capital budgeting project proposed by division X. This is the division in which the president spent his first 10 years with the company.
On the same day, the president rejects a capital budgeting project proposal from division Y. The manager of division Y is incensed.
She believes that the division Y project has an internal rate of return at least 10 percentage points higher than the division X project. She comments, What is the point of all our detailed DCF analysis? If Watts is panting over a project, he can arrange to have the proponents of that project massage the numbers so that it looks like a winner.
What advice would you give the manager of division Y? For more information on Cost Accounting read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_accounting