Sutherland manufactures and sells 50,000 laser printers each month. A principal component part in each printer is its paper feed drive. Sutherland's plant currently has the monthly capacity to produce 80,000 drives. The unit costs of manufacturing these drives (up to 80,000 per month) are as follows Variable costs per unit: Direct materials Direct labor Variable manufacturing overhead $ 23 15 2
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Job Costing
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![Sutherland manufactures and sells 50,000 laser printers each month. A principal component part in each printer is its
paper feed drive. Sutherland's plant currently has the monthly capacity to produce 80,000 drives. The unit costs of
manufacturing these drives (up to 80,000 per month) are as follows
Variable costs per unit:
Direct materials
Direct labor
Variable manufacturing overhead
Fixed costs per month:
Fixed manufacturing overhead
$
23
15
2
$1,400,000
Desk-Mate Printers has offered to buy 10,000 paper feed drives from Sutherland to be used in its own printers.
a. Compute the average unit cost of manufacturing each paper feed drive assuming that Sutherland manufactures only
enough drives for its own laser printers.
b. Compute the incremental unit cost of producing an additional paper feed drive.
c. Compute the per-unit sales price that Sutherland should charge Desk-Mate to earn $130,000 in monthly pretax profit
on the sale of drives to Desk-Mate.](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F72fde273-f300-4010-8d03-7f9a8418e03f%2F8e10c2e6-ed46-487d-8ee8-7d6b82fc05f8%2Fq3qpyuo_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
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