Make or buy decision Dani’s Doohickeys can buy widgets from The Widget Company for $10 apiece or make them in-house. Dani already has a factory for making thingamajigs and current fixed manufacturing costs are $10,000. Here is how Dani expects her costs to look with 1,000 widgets being built in-house: Hourly rate paid to workers in the widget manufacturing department $20.00 Hourly rate paid to the widget manufacturing department supervisor $32.00 Man hours per widget (4x supervisor hours) 0.25 hr Direct ma
Make or buy decision Dani’s Doohickeys can buy widgets from The Widget Company for $10 apiece or make them in-house. Dani already has a factory for making thingamajigs and current fixed manufacturing costs are $10,000. Here is how Dani expects her costs to look with 1,000 widgets being built in-house: Hourly rate paid to workers in the widget manufacturing department $20.00 Hourly rate paid to the widget manufacturing department supervisor $32.00 Man hours per widget (4x supervisor hours) 0.25 hr Direct ma
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