Baraban Corporation has provided the following data for its most recent year of operation: Selling price per unit $ 47 Manufacturing costs: Variable manufacturing cost per unit produced: Direct materials $ 10 Direct labor $ 6 Variable manufacturing overhead $ 5 Fixed manufacturing overhead per year $130,000 Selling and administrative expenses: Variable selling and administrative expense per unit sold $ 5 Fixed selling and administrative expense per year $ 63,000 Units in beginning inventory 0 Units produced during the year 10,000 Units sold during the year 9,000 Units in ending inventory 1,000 The unit product cost under absorption costing is closest to:

How should the environmental effects be dealt with when evaluating this project? the environmental effects should be ignored since the plant is legal without mitigation. the environmental effects should be treated as a sunk cost and therefore ignored. if the utility mitigates for the environmental effects, the project is not acceptable. however, before the company chooses to do the project without mitigation, it needs to make sure that any costs of "ill will" for not mitigating for the environmental effects have been considered in the original analysis. the environmental effects should be treated as a remote possibility and should only be considered at the time in which they actually occur. the environmental effects if not mitigated would result in additional cash flows. therefore, since the plant is legal without mitigation, there are no benefits to performing a "no mitigation" analysis.