Stanco, Inc., is a decentralized organization with five divisions. The company's Electronics Division produces a variety of electronics items, including an XL5 circuit board. The division (which is operating at capacity) sells the XL5 circuit board to regular customers for $12.70 each. The circuit boards have a variable production cost of $8.45 each.

    The company's Clock Division has asked the Electronics Division to supply it with a large quantity of XL5 circuit boards for only $8.70 each. The Clock Division, which is operating at only 60% of capacity, will put the circuit boards into a timing device that it will produce and sell to a large oven manufacturer. The cost of the timing device being manufactured by the Clock Division follows:

The manager of the Clock Division feels that she can't quote a price greater than $75.95 per timing device to the oven manufacturer if her division is to get the job. As shown above, in order to keep the price at $75.95 or less, she can't pay more than $8.70 per unit to the Electronics Division for the XL5 circuit boards. Although the $8.70 price for the XL5 circuit boards represents a substantial discount from the normal $12.70 price, she feels that the price concession is necessary for her division to get the oven manufacturer contract and thereby keep its core of highly trained people.

What is the minimum transfer price you will charge to supply the XL5 circuit boards to the Clock Division?

Would you recommend that your division supply the XL5 circuit boards to the Clock Division for $8.70 each as requested?