South-western Federal Taxation 2018: Individual Income Taxes
South-western Federal Taxation 2018: Individual Income Taxes
41st Edition
ISBN: 9781337385886
Author: William H. Hoffman, James C. Young, William A. Raabe, David M. Maloney, Annette Nellen
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Green Grow Incorporated (GGI) manufactures lawn fertilizer. Because of the product’s very high quality, GGI often receives special orders from agricultural research groups. For each type of fertilizer sold, each bag is carefully filled to have the precise mix of components advertised for that type of fertilizer. GGI’s operating capacity is 34,000 one-hundred-pound bags per month, and it currently is selling 32,000 bags manufactured in 32 batches of 1,000 bags each. The firm just received a request for a special order of 7,400 one-hundred-pound bags of fertilizer for $210,000 from APAC, a research organization. The production costs would be the same, but there would be no variable selling costs. Delivery and other packaging and distribution services would cause a one-time $3,900 cost for GGI. The special order would be processed in two batches of 3,700 bags each. (No incremental batch-level costs are anticipated. Most of the batch-level costs in this case are short-term fixed costs,…
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