Ajax Manufacturing produces a single product, which takes 8.0 pounds of direct materials per unitproduced. Assume that it is currently at the end of the first quarter of the year, and there are 50,000pounds of material on hand. The company’s policy is to maintain an end-of-quarter inventoryof materials equal to 25 percent of the following quarter’s material requirements for production.How many units of product were produced in the first quarter of the year? Under the assumptionthat production will increase by 10 percent in the second quarter, what are the direct materialsrequirements (in pounds) for planned production in the second quarter?

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Ajax Manufacturing produces a single product, which takes 8.0 pounds of direct materials per unit
produced. Assume that it is currently at the end of the first quarter of the year, and there are 50,000
pounds of material on hand. The company’s policy is to maintain an end-of-quarter inventory
of materials equal to 25 percent of the following quarter’s material requirements for production.
How many units of product were produced in the first quarter of the year? Under the assumption
that production will increase by 10 percent in the second quarter, what are the direct materials
requirements (in pounds) for planned production in the second quarter?

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Platt company has a fixed cost of £200,000 per annum producing external hard disks with a
selling price £50 per unit. The variable cost of a hard disk is £40.The production capacity per
year is 25,000 hard disks.
a. How many hard disks should Platt sell before it can break even? (Hint: Use ‘Goal seek’ to
get this answer).
b. Given Platt’s assumption, produce a one-way table to show how quantity sold would affect
the profit and elaborate on the relationship.
c. Given Platt’s assumption, produce a two-way table and discuss how a change in sales
volume and variable cost jointly affect profit
d. Please include a graph to supplement your explanation for 1b.
e. Use the auditing toolbar to show the precedents of your current profit cell. 

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