Prest Metal Products manufactures and sells various products. The products are manufactured at one of a few plants (depending on the product) and then shipped to a distribution center for eventual delivery to customers. The Auburn Distribution Center (ADC) of Prest Metal Products handles a subset of Prest Products. The products handled by the ADC are fairly similar in size and weight and differ primarily in features that do not affect handling or packaging. When the sales staff at Prest receives an order, they send it to the appropriate distribution center to fill (collect units and package for shipping) and ship the units to the customer. A single order may consist of one (although unusual) or more units. Regardless of the number of units in the order, ADC has to follow certain steps to process the order, such as verifying the customer's address and credit information, review the order for errors, and so on. The ADC is also responsible for following up on any complaints from the customer about problems with the order. The ADC expects to distribute 250,000 units of products next month. As a part of the normal planning process at ADC, the center controller has classified next month's expected operating costs (excluding costs of the distributed product) as fixed or variable (with respect to units shipped) as follows. Account Operating Costs Behavior Administration $ 36,900 $ 33,800 Fixed Center labor 284,400 $ 143,300 Fixed Center lease 126,800 $ 101,800 Fixed Depreciation on equipment 124,000 $ 113,800 Fixed Miscellaneous 126,400 $ 55,800 Fixed Order processing 177,800 $ 39,800 Fixed Supervision 75,300 $ 51,800 Fixed Supplies (including packing materials) 200,300 All Variable Utilites 85,000 $ 61,800 Fixed Total $ 1,236,900 The center manager has asked the financial staff for more information about center costs and whether there is a better way to estimate them rather than having the controller go through the monthly account analysis. The center manager assigned the controller's staff to recommend improvements to the current process. Historically, all the financial and operation performance measures at ADC have been based on the number of units shipped. However, in preparing the analysis, one of the analysts on the controller's staff collected information from the last twelve months on orders processed as well as units shipped and ADC operating costs. These follow here: Month Units Orders Center Cost 1 237,470 9,890 $ 994,530 2 246,250 16,390 1,224,370 3 243,550 13,120 1,064,300 4 258,410 15,300 1,204,740 5 254,360 16,860 1,221,620 6 268,540 13,520 1,221,230 7 249,630 16,120 1,156,960 8 280,020 12,770 1,216,090 9 270,560 8,800 1,136,290 10 286,100 12,180 1,163,650 11 283,400 13,190 1,182,570 12 293,570 11,380 1,218,369 The controller and other managers at ADC agree that operations and costs last year were representative for the center. Required: a-1. Based on the controller's analysis of accounts, what is the variable cost per case? Note: Round your answer to 2 decimal places. a-2. Assuming that 275,000 units will be shipped in a future month, prepare an estimate of operating costs.

Prest Metal Products manufactures and sells various products. The products are manufactured at one of a few plants (depending on the product) and then shipped to a distribution center for eventual delivery to customers. The Auburn Distribution Center (ADC) of Prest Metal Products handles a subset of Prest Products. The products handled by the ADC are fairly similar in size and weight and differ primarily in features that do not affect handling or packaging. When the sales staff at Prest receives an order, they send it to the appropriate distribution center to fill (collect units and package for shipping) and ship the units to the customer. A single order may consist of one (although unusual) or more units. Regardless of the number of units in the order, ADC has to follow certain steps to process the order, such as verifying the customer's address and credit information, review the order for errors, and so on. The ADC is also responsible for following up on any complaints from the customer about problems with the order. The ADC expects to distribute 250,000 units of products next month. As a part of the normal planning process at ADC, the center controller has classified next month's expected operating costs (excluding costs of the distributed product) as fixed or variable (with respect to units shipped) as follows. Account Operating Costs Behavior Administration $ 36,900 $ 33,800 Fixed Center labor 284,400 $ 143,300 Fixed Center lease 126,800 $ 101,800 Fixed Depreciation on equipment 124,000 $ 113,800 Fixed Miscellaneous 126,400 $ 55,800 Fixed Order processing 177,800 $ 39,800 Fixed Supervision 75,300 $ 51,800 Fixed Supplies (including packing materials) 200,300 All Variable Utilites 85,000 $ 61,800 Fixed Total $ 1,236,900 The center manager has asked the financial staff for more information about center costs and whether there is a better way to estimate them rather than having the controller go through the monthly account analysis. The center manager assigned the controller's staff to recommend improvements to the current process. Historically, all the financial and operation performance measures at ADC have been based on the number of units shipped. However, in preparing the analysis, one of the analysts on the controller's staff collected information from the last twelve months on orders processed as well as units shipped and ADC operating costs. These follow here: Month Units Orders Center Cost 1 237,470 9,890 $ 994,530 2 246,250 16,390 1,224,370 3 243,550 13,120 1,064,300 4 258,410 15,300 1,204,740 5 254,360 16,860 1,221,620 6 268,540 13,520 1,221,230 7 249,630 16,120 1,156,960 8 280,020 12,770 1,216,090 9 270,560 8,800 1,136,290 10 286,100 12,180 1,163,650 11 283,400 13,190 1,182,570 12 293,570 11,380 1,218,369 The controller and other managers at ADC agree that operations and costs last year were representative for the center. Required: a-1. Based on the controller's analysis of accounts, what is the variable cost per case? Note: Round your answer to 2 decimal places. a-2. Assuming that 275,000 units will be shipped in a future month, prepare an estimate of operating costs.

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