Flat Images Flat Images develops and manufactures large, state-of-the-art flat-panel television screens that consumer electronic companies purchase and incorporate into a complete TV unit by adding the case, mounting brackets, tuner, amplifier, other electronics, and speakers. Flat Images has just introduced a new high-resolution, high-definition 60-inch screen. Flat Images is composed of two profit centers: Manufacturing and Marketing. Manufacturing produces sets that are sold internally to Marketing. Each profit center has the following cost structure:

Note that Marketing’s fixed cost of $150,000 and variable cost of $200 per screen do not contain any transfer price from Manufacturing. The numbers in the preceding table consist only of their own costs, not any costs transferred from the other department. The selling price that Marketing receives for each 60-inch screen depends on the number of screens sold that month, according to the following table:18