Lou Barlow, a divisional manager for Sage Company, has an opportunity to manufacture and sell one of two new products for a five- vear period. His annual pay raises are determined by his division's return on investment (ROI). which has exceeded 21% each of the ast three years. He has computed the cost and revenue estimates for each product as follows: Product A Product B Initial investment: Cost of equipment (zero salvage value) Annual revenues and costs: Sales revenues Variable expenses Depreciation expense Fixed out-of-pocket operating costs $ 210,000 $ 420, 000 $ 290,000 $ 138,000 $ 42,000 $ 74,000 $ 390, 000 $ 186,000 $ 84, 000 $ 54, 000 The company's discount rate is 19%. Click here to view Exhibit 12B-1 and Exhibit 12B-2, to determine the appropriate discount factor using tables. Requlred: 1. Calculate the payback period for each product. 2 Calculate the net present value for each product. 3. Calculate the internal rate of return for each product. 4. Calculate the project profitability index for each product. 5. Calculate the simple rate of return for each product. 5a. For each measure, identify whether Product A or Product B is preferred.
Variance Analysis
In layman's terms, variance analysis is an analysis of a difference between planned and actual behavior. Variance analysis is mainly used by the companies to maintain a control over a business. After analyzing differences, companies find the reasons for the variance so that the necessary steps should be taken to correct that variance.
Standard Costing
The standard cost system is the expected cost per unit product manufactured and it helps in estimating the deviations and controlling them as well as fixing the selling price of the product. For example, it helps to plan the cost for the coming year on the various expenses.
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