TufStuff, Inc., sells a wide range of drums, bins, boxes, and other containers that are used in the chemical industry. One of the company's products is a heavy-duty corrosion-resistant metal drum, called the WVD drum, used to store toxic wastes. Production is constrained by the capacity of an automated welding machine that is used to make precision welds. A total of 2,160 hours of wekding time is available annually on the machine. Because each drum requires 0.4 hours of welding machine time, annual production is limited to 5,400 drums. At present, the welding machine is used exclusively to make the WVD drums. The accounting department has provided the following financial data concerning the WVD drums: WVD Drums Selling price per drum Cost per drum: Direct materials Direct labor ($26 per hour) Manafacturing ovethead Selling and administrative expense_31.40 98,00 $181,00 $52.10 5.20 9.30 Margin per drum $ 83.00 Required: 1. Compute the contribution margin per unit. [assume direct labor is a fixed cost] Management believes 6,700 WVD drums coukd be sold each year if the company had sufficient manufacturing capacity. As an alternative to adding another welding machine, management has considered buying additional drums from an outside supplier. Harcor Industries, Inc., a supplier of quality products, would be able to provile up to 4,400 WVD-type drums per year at a price of $162 per drum, which TufStuff would resell to its customers at its normal selling price after appropriate relabeling. Contribution Margin a. Purchased WVD drums b. c. Manufactured bike frames per unit per unit | per unit Manufactured WVD drums Megan Flores, TufStuff's production manager, has suggested that the company could make better use of the welding machine by manufacturing bike frames, which would require only 0.5 hours of wekling machine time per frame and yet sell for far more than the drums. Megan believes that TufStuff coukl sell up to 1,760 bike frames per year to bike manufacturers at a price of $279 each. The accounting department has provided the following data concerning the proposed new product: 2. Compute the contribution margin per welding hour. [assume direct labor is a fixed cost] Contribution Margin per hour per hour Bike Frames 1. Manufactured WVD drums Selling price per frame Cost per frame: Direct materials Direct labor $18 per hour) Manufacturing overhead Selling and administrative expense_54. 20 244.00 $279.00 2. Manufactured bike frames $104.20 41.60 44.00 3. Assuming direct labor is a fixed cost: a. Determine the number of WVD drums (if any) that should be purchased and the number of WVD drums and/or bike frames (if any) that should be manufactured. Margin per frame $ 35.00 Purchased Manufactured The bike frames could be produced with existing equipment and personnel. Manufacturing overhead is allocated to products on the basis of direct labor-hours, Most of the manufacturing overhead consists of fixed common costs such as rent on the factory building, but some of it is variable. The variable manufacturing overhead has been estimated at $1.35 per WVD drum and $1.90 per bike frame. The variable manufacturing overhead cost would not be incurred on drums acquired from the outside supplier. WVD drums Bike frames b. What is the increase (decrease) in net operating income that would result from this plan over current орerations? Selling and administrative expenses are allocated to products on the basis of revenues. Almost all of the selling and administrative expenses are fixed common costs, but it has been estimated that variable selling and administrative expenses amount to $.75 per WVD drum whether made or purchased and would be $2.10 per bike frame. Increase (decrease) in net operating income All of the company's employees direct and indirect-are paid for full 40.00-hour work weeks and the company has a policy of laying off workers only in major recessions. As soon as your analysis was shown to the top management team at TufStuff, several managers got into an argument concerning how direct labor costs should be treated when making this decision. One manager argued that direct labor is always treated as a variable cost in textbooks and in practice and has always been considered a variable cost at TufStuff. After all, "direct" means you can directly trace the cost to products. "If direct labor is not a variable cost, what is?" Another manager argued just as strenuously that direct labor should be considered a fixed cost at TufStuff. No one had been laid off in over a decade, and for all practical purposes, everyone at the plant is on a monthly salary. Everyone classified as direct labor works a regular 40.00-hour workweek and overtime has not been necessary since the company adopted Lean Production techniques. Whether the welding machine is used to make drums or frames, the total payroll would be exactly the same. There is enough slack, in the form of idle time, to accommodate any increase in total direct labor time that the bike frames would require.

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TufStuff, Inc., sells a wide range of drums, bins, boxes, and other containers that are used in the chemical
industry. One of the company's products is a heavy-duty corrosion-resistant metal drum, called the WVD
drum, used to store toxic wastes. Production is constrained by the capacity of an automated welding
machine that is used to make precision welds. A total of 2,160 hours of wekding time is available annually on
the machine. Because each drum requires 0.4 hours of welding machine time, annual production is limited to
5,400 drums. At present, the welding machine is used exclusively to make the WVD drums. The accounting
department has provided the following financial data concerning the WVD drums:
WVD Drums
Selling price per drum
Cost per drum:
Direct materials
Direct labor ($26 per hour)
Manafacturing ovethead
Selling and administrative expense_31.40 98,00
$181,00
$52.10
5.20
9.30
Margin per drum
$ 83.00
Required:
1. Compute the contribution margin per unit. [assume direct labor is a fixed cost]
Management believes 6,700 WVD drums could be sold each year if the company had sufficient
manufacturing capacity. As an alternative to adding another welding machine, management has considered
buying additional drums from an outside supplier. Harcor Industries, Inc., a supplier of quality products,
would be able to provile up to 4,400 WVD-type drums per year at a price of $162 per drum, which TufStuff
would resell to its customers at its normal selling price after appropriate relabeling.
Contribution Margin
a. Purchased WVD drums
b. Manufactured WD drums
c. Manufactured bike frames
per unit
per unit
| per unit
Megan Flores, TufStuff's production manager, has suggested that the company could make better use of the
welding machine by manufacturing bike frames, which would require only 0.5 hours of wekling machine
time per frame and yet sell for far more than the drums. Megan believes that TufStuff coukl sell up to 1,760
bike frames per year to bike manufacturers at a price of $279 each. The accounting department has provided
the following data concerning the proposed new product:
2. Compute the contribution margin per welding hour. [assume direct labor is a fixed cost]
Contribution Margin
per hour
per hour
Bike Frames
1.
Manufactured WVD drums
Selling price per frame
Cost per frame:
Direct materials
Direct labor $18 per hour)
Manufacturing overhead
Selling and administrative expense 54.20 244.00
$279.00
2. Manufactured bike frames
$104.20
41.60
44.00
3. Assuming direct labor is a fixed cost:
a. Determine the number of WVD drums (if any) that should be purchased and the number of WVD drums
and/or bike frames (if any) that should be manufactured.
Margin per frame
$ 35.00
The bike frames could be produced with existing equipment and personnel. Manufacturing overhead is
allocated to products on the basis of direct labor-hours, Most of the manufacturing overhead consists of
fixed common costs such as rent on the factory building, but some of it is variable. The variable
manufacturing overhead has been estimated at $1.35 per WVD drum and $1.90 per bike frame. The variable
manufacturing overhead cost would not be incurred on drums acquired from the outside supplier.
Purchased Manufactured
WVD drums
Bike frames
b. What is the increase (decrease) in net operating income that would result from this plan over current
Selling and administrative expenses are allocated to products on the basis of revenues. Almost all of the
selling and administrative expenses are fixed common costs, but it has been estimated that variable selling
and administrative expenses amount to $.75 per WVD drum whether made or purchased and would be
$2.10 per bike frame.
operations?
Increase (decrease) in net operating income
All of the company's employees direct and indirect-are paid for full 40.00-hour work weeks and the
company has a policy of laying off workers only in major recessions.
As soon as your analysis was shown to the top management team at TufStuff, several managers got into an
argument concerning how direct labor costs should be treated when making this decision. One manager
argued that direct labor is always treated as a variable cost in textbooks and in practice and has always been
considered a variable cost at TufStuff. After all, "direct" means you can directly trace the cost to products.
"If direct labor is not a variable cost, what is?" Another manager argued just as strenuously that direct labor
should be considered a fixed cost at TufStuff. No one had been laid off in over a decade, and for all practical
purposes, everyone at the plant is on a monthly salary. Everyone classified as direct labor works a regular
40.00-hour workweek and overtime has not been necessary since the company adopted Lean Production
techniques. Whether the welding machine is used to make drums or frames, the total payroll would be
exactly the same. There is enough slack, in the form of idle time, to accommodate any increase in total direct
labor time that the bike frames would require.
Transcribed Image Text:TufStuff, Inc., sells a wide range of drums, bins, boxes, and other containers that are used in the chemical industry. One of the company's products is a heavy-duty corrosion-resistant metal drum, called the WVD drum, used to store toxic wastes. Production is constrained by the capacity of an automated welding machine that is used to make precision welds. A total of 2,160 hours of wekding time is available annually on the machine. Because each drum requires 0.4 hours of welding machine time, annual production is limited to 5,400 drums. At present, the welding machine is used exclusively to make the WVD drums. The accounting department has provided the following financial data concerning the WVD drums: WVD Drums Selling price per drum Cost per drum: Direct materials Direct labor ($26 per hour) Manafacturing ovethead Selling and administrative expense_31.40 98,00 $181,00 $52.10 5.20 9.30 Margin per drum $ 83.00 Required: 1. Compute the contribution margin per unit. [assume direct labor is a fixed cost] Management believes 6,700 WVD drums could be sold each year if the company had sufficient manufacturing capacity. As an alternative to adding another welding machine, management has considered buying additional drums from an outside supplier. Harcor Industries, Inc., a supplier of quality products, would be able to provile up to 4,400 WVD-type drums per year at a price of $162 per drum, which TufStuff would resell to its customers at its normal selling price after appropriate relabeling. Contribution Margin a. Purchased WVD drums b. Manufactured WD drums c. Manufactured bike frames per unit per unit | per unit Megan Flores, TufStuff's production manager, has suggested that the company could make better use of the welding machine by manufacturing bike frames, which would require only 0.5 hours of wekling machine time per frame and yet sell for far more than the drums. Megan believes that TufStuff coukl sell up to 1,760 bike frames per year to bike manufacturers at a price of $279 each. The accounting department has provided the following data concerning the proposed new product: 2. Compute the contribution margin per welding hour. [assume direct labor is a fixed cost] Contribution Margin per hour per hour Bike Frames 1. Manufactured WVD drums Selling price per frame Cost per frame: Direct materials Direct labor $18 per hour) Manufacturing overhead Selling and administrative expense 54.20 244.00 $279.00 2. Manufactured bike frames $104.20 41.60 44.00 3. Assuming direct labor is a fixed cost: a. Determine the number of WVD drums (if any) that should be purchased and the number of WVD drums and/or bike frames (if any) that should be manufactured. Margin per frame $ 35.00 The bike frames could be produced with existing equipment and personnel. Manufacturing overhead is allocated to products on the basis of direct labor-hours, Most of the manufacturing overhead consists of fixed common costs such as rent on the factory building, but some of it is variable. The variable manufacturing overhead has been estimated at $1.35 per WVD drum and $1.90 per bike frame. The variable manufacturing overhead cost would not be incurred on drums acquired from the outside supplier. Purchased Manufactured WVD drums Bike frames b. What is the increase (decrease) in net operating income that would result from this plan over current Selling and administrative expenses are allocated to products on the basis of revenues. Almost all of the selling and administrative expenses are fixed common costs, but it has been estimated that variable selling and administrative expenses amount to $.75 per WVD drum whether made or purchased and would be $2.10 per bike frame. operations? Increase (decrease) in net operating income All of the company's employees direct and indirect-are paid for full 40.00-hour work weeks and the company has a policy of laying off workers only in major recessions. As soon as your analysis was shown to the top management team at TufStuff, several managers got into an argument concerning how direct labor costs should be treated when making this decision. One manager argued that direct labor is always treated as a variable cost in textbooks and in practice and has always been considered a variable cost at TufStuff. After all, "direct" means you can directly trace the cost to products. "If direct labor is not a variable cost, what is?" Another manager argued just as strenuously that direct labor should be considered a fixed cost at TufStuff. No one had been laid off in over a decade, and for all practical purposes, everyone at the plant is on a monthly salary. Everyone classified as direct labor works a regular 40.00-hour workweek and overtime has not been necessary since the company adopted Lean Production techniques. Whether the welding machine is used to make drums or frames, the total payroll would be exactly the same. There is enough slack, in the form of idle time, to accommodate any increase in total direct labor time that the bike frames would require.
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in step 2 solution 1 how do we reach the direct material cost of  (104.20)? THe Direct materials of one bike frame is 101.80  just like the direct materials of one drum is 52.10. What is being added to the bike frame material? and why is nothing added to the drum material?

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