Cane Company manufactures two products called Alpha and Beta that sell for $240 and $162, respectively. Each product uses only one type of raw material that costs $5 per pound. The company has the capacity to annually produce 131,000 units of each product. Its average cost per unit for each product at this level of activity are given below: Alpha Beta Direct materials $ 35 $ 15 Direct labor 48 23 Variable manufacturing overhead 27 25 Traceable fixed manufacturing overhead 35 38 Variable selling expenses 32 28 Common fixed expenses 35 30 Total cost per unit $ 212 $ 159 The company considers its traceable fixed manufacturing overhead to be avoidable, whereas its common fixed expenses are unavoidable and have been allocated to products based on sales dollars. 3. Assume that Cane expects to produce and sell 100,000 Alphas during the current year. One of Cane's sales representatives has found a new customer who is willing to buy 30,000 additional Alphas for a price of $160 per unit. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the new customer's order?
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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Cane Company manufactures two products called Alpha and Beta that sell for $240 and $162, respectively. Each product uses only one type of raw material that costs $5 per pound. The company has the capacity to annually produce 131,000 units of each product. Its average cost per unit for each product at this level of activity are given below:
| Alpha | Beta | |||||||
| Direct materials | $ | 35 | $ | 15 | ||||
| Direct labor | 48 | 23 | ||||||
| Variable manufacturing |
27 | 25 | ||||||
| Traceable fixed manufacturing overhead | 35 | 38 | ||||||
| Variable selling expenses | 32 | 28 | ||||||
| Common fixed expenses | 35 | 30 | ||||||
| Total cost per unit | $ | 212 | $ | 159 | ||||
The company considers its traceable fixed manufacturing overhead to be avoidable, whereas its common fixed expenses are unavoidable and have been allocated to products based on sales dollars.
3. Assume that Cane expects to produce and sell 100,000 Alphas during the current year. One of Cane's sales representatives has found a new customer who is willing to buy 30,000 additional Alphas for a price of $160 per unit. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the new customer's order?
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