Problem 6-18 (Algo) Relevant Cost Analysis In a Variety of Situations [LO6-2, LO6-3, LO6-4]Andretti Company has a single product called a Dak. The company normally produces and sells 87,000 Daks each year at a sellingprice of $60 per unit. The company's unit costs at this level of activity are given below:Direct materialsDirect laborVariable manufacturing overheadFixed manufacturing overheadVariable selling expensesFixed selling expensesTotal cost per unit$ 7.508.002.905.00 ($435,000 total)2.702.50 ($217,500 total)$28.60A number of questions relating to the production and sale of Daks follow. Each question is independent.Required:1-a. Assume that Andretti Company has sufficient capacity to produce 113,100 Daks each year without any increase in fixedmanufacturing overhead costs. The company could increase its unit sales by 30% above the present 87,000 units each year if it werewilling to increase the fixed selling expenses by $110,000. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of investing an additional$110.000 in fixed selling expenses?1-b. Would the additional investment be justified?2. Assume again that Andretti Company has sufficient capacity to produce 113,100 Daks each year. A customer in a foreign marketwants to purchase 26,100 Daks. If Andretti accepts this order it would have to pay import duties on the Daks of $3.70 per unit and anadditional $20,880 for permits and licenses. The only selling costs that would be associated with the order would be $2.40 per unitshipping cost. What is the break-even price per unit on this order?3. The company has 800 Daks on hand that have some irregularities and are therefore considered to be "seconds." Due to theirregularities, it will be impossible to sell these units at the normal price through regular distribution channels. What is the unit costfigure that is relevant for setting a minimum selling price?4. Due to a strike in its supplier's plant, Andretti Company is unable to purchase more material for the production of Daks. The strike isexpected to last for two months. Andretti Company has enough material on hand to operate at 25% of normal levels for the two-monthperiod. As an alternative, Andretti could close its plant down entirely for the two months. If the plant were closed, fixed manufacturingoverhead costs would continue at 35% of their normal level during the two-month period and the fixed selling expenses would bereduced by 20% during the two-month period.a. How much total contribution margin will Andretti forgo if it closes the plant for two months?b. How much total fixed cost will the company avoid if it closes the plant for two months?c. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of closing the plant for the two-month period?d. Should Andretti close the plant for two months?5. An outside manufacturer has offered to produce 87,000 Daks and ship them directly to Andretti's customers. If Andretti Companyaccepts this offer, the facilities that it uses to produce Daks would be idle; however, fixed manufacturing overhead costs would bereduced by 30%. Because the outside manufacturer would pay for all shipping costs, the variable selling expenses would be only two-thirds of their present amount. What is Andretti's avoidable cost per unit that it should compare to the price quoted by the outsidemanufacturer?

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Wrappers Tape makes two products: Simple and Removable. It estimates it will produce 369,991 units of Simple and 146,100 of Removable, and the overhead for each of its cost pools is as follows: It has also estimated the activities for each cost driver as follows: Â How much is the overhead allocated to each unit of Simple and Removable?
Step Costs, Relevant Range Bellati Inc. produces large industrial machinery. Bellati has a machining department and a group of direct laborers called machinists. Each machinist can machine up to 500 units per year. Bellati also hires supervisors to develop machine specification plans and oversee production within the machining department. Given the planning and supervisory work, a supervisor can oversee, at most, three machinists. Bellatis accounting and production history shows the following relationships between number of units produced and the annual costs of supervision and materials handling (by machinists): Required: 1. Prepare a graph that illustrates the relationship between direct labor cost and number of units produced in the machining department. (Let cost of direct labor be the vertical axis and number of units be the horizontal axis.) Would you classify this cost as a strictly variable cost, a fixed cost, or a step cost? 2. Prepare a graph that illustrates the relationship between the cost of supervision and the number of units produced. (Let cost of supervision be the vertical axis and number of units be the horizontal axis.) Would you classify this cost as a strictly variable cost, a fixed cost, or a step cost? 3. Suppose that the normal range of production is between 1,400 and 1,500 units and that the exact number of machinists is currently hired to support this level of activity. Further suppose that production for the next year is expected to increase by an additional 500 units. What is the increase in the cost of direct labor? Cost of supervision?
The following product costs are available for Stellis Company on the production of erasers: direct materials, $22,000; direct labor, $35,000; manufacturing overhead, $17,500; selling expenses, $17,600; and administrative expenses; $13,400. What are the prime costs? What are the conversion costs? What is the total product cost? What is the total period cost? If 13,750 equivalent units are produced, what is the equivalent material cost per unit? If 17,500 equivalent units are produced, what is the equivalent conversion cost per unit?
Grand Canyon Manufacturing Inc. produces and sells a product with a price of 100 per unit. The following cost data have been prepared for its estimated upper and lower limits of activity: Overhead: Selling and administrative expenses: Required: 1. Classify each cost element as either variable, fixed, or semi-variable. (Hint: Recall that variable expenses must go up in direct proportion to changes in the volume of activity.) 2. Calculate the break-even point in units and dollars. (Hint: First use the high-low method illustrated in Chapter 4 to separate costs into their fixed and variable components.) 3. Prepare a break-even chart. 4. Prepare a contribution income statement, similar in format to the statement appearing on page 540, assuming sales of 5,000 units. 5. Recompute the break-even point in units, assuming that variable costs increase by 20% and fixed costs are reduced by 50,000.
Variable and Fixed Costs What follows are a number of resources that are used by a manufacturer of futons. Assume that the output measure or cost driver is the number of futons produced. All direct labor is paid on an hourly basis, and hours worked can be easily changed by management. All other factory workers are salaried. a. Power to operate a drill (to drill holes in the wooden frames of the futons) b. Cloth to cover the futon mattress c. Salary of the factory receptionist d. Cost of food and decorations for the annual Fourth of July party for all factory employees e. Fuel for a forklift used to move materials in a factory f. Depreciation on the factory g. Depreciation on a forklift used to move partially completed goods h. Wages paid to workers who assemble the futon frame i. Wages paid to workers who maintain the factory equipment j. Cloth rags used to wipe the excess stain off the wooden frames Required: Classify the resource costs as variable or fixed.
Medical Tape makes two products: Generic and Label. It estimates it will produce 423,694 units of Generic and 652,200 of Label, and the overhead for each of its cost pools is as follows: It has also estimated the activities for each cost driver as follows: How much is the overhead allocated to each unit of Generic and Label?
Identify cost graphs The following cost graphs illustrate various types of cost behavior: For each of the following costs, identify the cost graph that best illustrates its cost behavior as the number of units produced increases. a. Direct material cost per unit. b. Fees for using a patent of $500,000 plus $0.25 for each unit produced. c. Salary of quality control supervisor. d. Straight-line depreciation per unit on factory equipment. e. Total direct materials cost.
Hart Manufacturing makes three products. Each product requires manufacturing operations in three departments: A, B, and C. The labor-hour requirements, by department, are as follows: During the next production period the labor-hours available are 450 in department A, 350 in department B, and 50 in department C. The profit contributions per unit are 25 for product 1, 28 for product 2, and 30 for product 3. a. Formulate a linear programming model for maximizing total profit contribution. b. Solve the linear program formulated in part (a). How much of each product should be produced, and what is the projected total profit contribution? c. After evaluating the solution obtained in part (b), one of the production supervisors noted that production setup costs had not been taken into account. She noted that setup costs are 400 for product 1, 550 for product 2, and 600 for product 3. If the solution developed in part (b) is to be used, what is the total profit contribution after taking into account the setup costs? d. Management realized that the optimal product mix, taking setup costs into account, might be different from the one recommended in part (b). Formulate a mixed-integer linear program that takes setup costs provided in part (c) into account. Management also stated that we should not consider making more than 175 units of product 1, 150 units of product 2, or 140 units of product 3. e. Solve the mixed-integer linear program formulated in part (d). How much of each product should be produced and what is the projected total profit contribution? Compare this profit contribution to that obtained in part (c).
The following product Costs are available for Haworth Company on the production of chairs: direct materials, $15,500; direct labor, $22.000; manufacturing overhead, $16.500; selling expenses, $6,900; and administrative expenses, $15,200. What are the prime costs? What are the conversion costs? What is the total product cost? What is the total period cost? If 7,750 equivalent units are produced, what is the equivalent material cost per unit? If 22,000 equivalent units are produced, what is the equivalent conversion cost per unit?
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