Outdoor Luggage, Incorporated, makes high-end hard-sided luggage for sports equipment. Data concerning three of the company's most popular models appear below: Selling price per unit Variable cost per unit Plastic injection molding machine processing time required to produce one unit Pounds of plastic pellets per unit Ski Guard $ 290 $ 185 12 minutes 10 pounds Golf Guard $ 190 $ 90 6 minutes 13 pounds Fishing Guar $ 215 $. 90 8 minutes 9 pounds Required: 1. If the total time available on the plastic injection molding machine is the constraint, how much contribution margin per minute of the constrained resource is earned by each product? 2. Which product offers the most profitable use of the plastic injection molding machine? 3. If a severe shortage of plastic pellets required the company to cut back production so much that its new constraint has become the total available pounds of plastic pellets, how much contribution margin per pound of the constrained resource is earned by each product? 4. Which product offers the most profitable use of the plastic pellets? 5. Which product has the largest contribution margin per unit?
Outdoor Luggage, Incorporated, makes high-end hard-sided luggage for sports equipment. Data concerning three of the company's most popular models appear below: Selling price per unit Variable cost per unit Plastic injection molding machine processing time required to produce one unit Pounds of plastic pellets per unit Ski Guard $ 290 $ 185 12 minutes 10 pounds Golf Guard $ 190 $ 90 6 minutes 13 pounds Fishing Guar $ 215 $. 90 8 minutes 9 pounds Required: 1. If the total time available on the plastic injection molding machine is the constraint, how much contribution margin per minute of the constrained resource is earned by each product? 2. Which product offers the most profitable use of the plastic injection molding machine? 3. If a severe shortage of plastic pellets required the company to cut back production so much that its new constraint has become the total available pounds of plastic pellets, how much contribution margin per pound of the constrained resource is earned by each product? 4. Which product offers the most profitable use of the plastic pellets? 5. Which product has the largest contribution margin per unit?
Chapter1: Financial Statements And Business Decisions
Section: Chapter Questions
Problem 1Q
Related questions
Question

Transcribed Image Text:Outdoor Luggage, Incorporated, makes high-end hard-sided luggage for sports equipment. Data concerning three of the
company's most popular models appear below:
Selling price per unit
Variable cost per unit
Plastic injection molding machine processing time
required to produce one unit
Pounds of plastic pellets per unit
Ski Guard
Contribution marnin ner minute of the constrained resu
$ 290.
$185
Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below.
Required 5
< Prev
12 minutes
10 pounds
Required:
1. If the total time available on the plastic injection molding machine is the constraint, how much contribution margin per
minute of the constrained resource is earned by each product?
2. Which product offers the most profitable use of the plastic injection molding machine?
10 of 18
3. If a severe shortage of plastic pellets required the company to cut back production so much that its new constraint has
become the total available pounds of plastic pellets, how much contribution margin per pound of the constrained resource
is earned by each product?
4. Which product offers the most profitable use of the plastic pellets?
5. Which product has the largest contribution margin per unit?
Golf Guard
$ 190
$ 90
Required 1
Required 2
Required 3 Required 4
If the total time available on the plastic injection molding machine is the constraint, how much contribution margin per minute of the
product?
Note: Round your final answers to 2 decimal places.
Ski Guard
6 minutes
13 pounds
ner minute
Next >
Fishing Guar
$ 215
$ 90
8 minutes
9 pounds
Golf Guard
Iner minute
Expert Solution

This question has been solved!
Explore an expertly crafted, step-by-step solution for a thorough understanding of key concepts.
This is a popular solution!
Trending now
This is a popular solution!
Step by step
Solved in 4 steps

Knowledge Booster
Learn more about
Need a deep-dive on the concept behind this application? Look no further. Learn more about this topic, accounting and related others by exploring similar questions and additional content below.Recommended textbooks for you


Accounting
Accounting
ISBN:
9781337272094
Author:
WARREN, Carl S., Reeve, James M., Duchac, Jonathan E.
Publisher:
Cengage Learning,

Accounting Information Systems
Accounting
ISBN:
9781337619202
Author:
Hall, James A.
Publisher:
Cengage Learning,


Accounting
Accounting
ISBN:
9781337272094
Author:
WARREN, Carl S., Reeve, James M., Duchac, Jonathan E.
Publisher:
Cengage Learning,

Accounting Information Systems
Accounting
ISBN:
9781337619202
Author:
Hall, James A.
Publisher:
Cengage Learning,

Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis…
Accounting
ISBN:
9780134475585
Author:
Srikant M. Datar, Madhav V. Rajan
Publisher:
PEARSON

Intermediate Accounting
Accounting
ISBN:
9781259722660
Author:
J. David Spiceland, Mark W. Nelson, Wayne M Thomas
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Education

Financial and Managerial Accounting
Accounting
ISBN:
9781259726705
Author:
John J Wild, Ken W. Shaw, Barbara Chiappetta Fundamental Accounting Principles
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Education