A company currently manufactures a subcomponent that is used in its main product. A supplier has offered to supply all the subcomponents needed at a price of $18.80. The company currently produces 100,000 subcomponents at the following manufacturing costs: Direct materials Direct labor Variable manufacturing overhead Fixed manufacturing overhead Total unit cost Cost per Unit $ 7.10 4.60 3.70 2.40 $17.80 Required: a. If the company has no alternative uses for the manufacturing capacity, what would be the profit impact of buying the subcomponents from the supplier? b. If there are no alternative uses for the manufacturing capacity, what would be the maximum price per unit they should be willing to pay the supplier? c. Now assume they would avoid $250,000 in equipment leases and salaries if the subcomponent were purchased from the supplier. Now what would be the profit impact of buying from the supplier?
Process Costing
Process costing is a sort of operation costing which is employed to determine the value of a product at each process or stage of producing process, applicable where goods produced from a series of continuous operations or procedure.
Job Costing
Job costing is adhesive costs of each and every job involved in the production processes. It is an accounting measure. It is a method which determines the cost of specific jobs, which are performed according to the consumer’s specifications. Job costing is possible only in businesses where the production is done as per the customer’s requirement. For example, some customers order to manufacture furniture as per their needs.
ABC Costing
Cost Accounting is a form of managerial accounting that helps the company in assessing the total variable cost so as to compute the cost of production. Cost accounting is generally used by the management so as to ensure better decision-making. In comparison to financial accounting, cost accounting has to follow a set standard ad can be used flexibly by the management as per their needs. The types of Cost Accounting include – Lean Accounting, Standard Costing, Marginal Costing and Activity Based Costing.
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