FunTime Company produces three lines of greeting cards: scented, musical, and reg- ular. Segmented income statements for the past year are as follows: Scented Musical Regular Total Sales Less: Variable expenses Contribution margin Less: Direct fixed expenses Segment margin Less: Common fixed expenses Operating income (loss) $10,000 7,000 $ 3,000 $15,000 12,000 $25,000 12,500 $12,500 $50,000 _31,500 $18,500 12,000 $ 6,500 7,500 $(1,000) $ 3,000 5,000 $ (2,000) $ 9,500 4,000 3,000 $(1,000) Kathy Bunker, president of FunTime, is concerned about the financial perfor- mance of her firm and is seriously considering dropping both the scented and musical product lines. However, before making a final decision, she consults Jim Dorn, FunTime's vice president of marketing.
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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FunTime Company produces three lines of greeting cards: scented, musical, and reg-
ular. Segmented income statements for the past year are as follows:
Product Line
Musical Regular
Total
Analysis with
Complementary
Effects
Scented
Sales
Less: Variable expenses
Contribution margin
Less: Direct fixed expenses
Segment margin
Less: Common fixed expenses
Operating income (loss)
$10,000
7,000
$ 3,000
$15,000
12,000
$ 3,000
5,000
$ (2,000) $ 9,500
$25,000
12,500
$12,500
$50,000
31,500
$18,500
12,000
$ 6,500
LO2
4,000
3,000
$(1,000)
7,500
$(1,000)
Kathy Bunker, president of FunTime, is concerned about the financial perfor-
mance of her firm and is seriously considering dropping both the scented and
musical product lines. However, before making a final decision, she consults Jim
Dorn, FunTime's vice president of marketing.
Chapter 10 / Segmented Reporting, Investment Center Evaluation, and Transfer Pricing 457
Required
1. Jim believes that by increasing advertising by $1,000 ($250 for the scented line
and $750 for the musical line), sales of those two lines would increase by 30
percent. If you were Kathy, how would you react to this information?
2. Jim warns Kathy that eliminating the scented and musical lines would lower the
sales of the regular line by 20 percent. Given this information, would it be prof-
itable to eliminate the scented and musical lines?
3. Suppose that eliminating either line reduces sales of the regular cards by 10 per-
cent. Would a combination of increased advertising (the option described in
Requirement 1) and eliminating one of the lines be beneficial? Identify the best
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