Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis (16th Edition)
Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis (16th Edition)
16th Edition
ISBN: 9780134475585
Author: Srikant M. Datar, Madhav V. Rajan
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 23, Problem 23.24E

ROI and RI with manufacturing costs. Excellent Motor Company makes electric cars and has two products, the Simplegreen and the Excellentgreen. To produce the Simplegreen, Excellent Motor employed assets of $10,500,000 at the beginning of 2017 and $14,450,000 of assets at the end of 2017. Other costs to manufacture the Simplegreen include the following:

Direct materials $5,000 per unit
Setup $1,500 per setup-hour
Production $ 415 per machine-hour

General administration and selling costs for Simplegreen total $7,820,000 in 2017. During the year, Excellent Motor produced 11,000 Simplegreen cars using 6,000 setup-hours and 139,000 machine-hours. It sold these cars for $12,000 each.

  1. 1. Assuming that Excellent Motor defines investment as average assets during the period, what is the return on investment for the Simplegreen division?

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  1. 2. Calculate the residual income for Simplegreen if Excellent Motor has a required rate of return of 16% on investments.
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Chapter 23 Solutions

Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis (16th Edition)

Ch. 23 - Managers should be rewarded only on the basis of...Ch. 23 - Explain the role of benchmarking in evaluating...Ch. 23 - Explain the incentive problems that can arise when...Ch. 23 - Prob. 23.14QCh. 23 - Prob. 23.15QCh. 23 - During the current year, a strategic business unit...Ch. 23 - Assuming an increase in price levels over time,...Ch. 23 - If ROI Is used to evaluate a managers performance...Ch. 23 - The Long Haul Trucking Company is developing...Ch. 23 - ABC Inc. desires to maintain a capital structure...Ch. 23 - ROI, comparisons of three companies. (CMA,...Ch. 23 - Prob. 23.22ECh. 23 - ROI and RI. (D. Kleespie, adapted) The Sports...Ch. 23 - ROI and RI with manufacturing costs. Excellent...Ch. 23 - ROI, RI, EVA. Hamilton Corp. is a reinsurance and...Ch. 23 - Goal incongruence and ROI. Comfy Corporation...Ch. 23 - ROI, RI, EVA. Performance Auto Company operates a...Ch. 23 - Capital budgeting, RI. Ryan Alcoa, a new associate...Ch. 23 - Prob. 23.29ECh. 23 - ROI, RI, EVA, and performance evaluation. Cora...Ch. 23 - Prob. 23.31ECh. 23 - Prob. 23.32ECh. 23 - ROI performance measures based on historical cost...Ch. 23 - ROI, measurement alternatives for performance...Ch. 23 - Multinational firms, differing risk, comparison of...Ch. 23 - ROI, Rl, DuPont method, investment decisions,...Ch. 23 - Division managers compensation, levers of control...Ch. 23 - Executive compensation, balanced scorecard. Acme...Ch. 23 - Financial and nonfinancial performance measures,...Ch. 23 - Prob. 23.40PCh. 23 - Prob. 23.41PCh. 23 - RI, EVA, measurement alternatives, goal...
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