James Company makes flanges for its main product of widgets. The cost of making each widget is as follows: Another company has offered to sell to James Company the flanges for a price of $19.00 each. Should James Company buy the flanges from the other company or continue to make the flanges themselves? Show your computations.

Make or Buy Decision: Zee-Drive Ltd. is a computer manufacturer. One of the items they make is monitors. Zee-Drive has the opportunity to purchase 19,000 monitors from an outside supplier for $211 per unit. One of the company's cost-accounting interns prepared the following schedule of Zee-Drive's cost to produce 19,000 monitors:   Total cost of producing 19,000 monitors Unit cost Direct materials $ 2,204,000 $ 116 Direct labor   1,330,000   70 Variable factory overhead   665,000   35 Fixed manufacturing overhead   570,000   30 Fixed non-manufacturing overhead   722,000   38   $ 5,491,000 $ 289 You are asked to look over the intern's estimate before the information is shared with members of management who will decide to continue to make the monitors or buy them. The company's controller believes that the estimate may be incorrect because it includes costs that are not relevant. If Zee-Drive buys the monitors, the direct labor force currently employed in producing the…

Carltons Kitchens makes two types of pasta makers: Strands and Shapes. The company expects to manufacture 70,000 units of Strands, which has a per-unit direct material cost of $10 and a per-unit direct labor cost of $60. It also expects to manufacture 30.000 units of Shapes, which has a per-unit material cost of $15 and a per-unit direct labor cost of $40. It is estimated that Strands will use 140,000 machine hours and Shapes will require 60,000 machine hours. Historically, the company has used the traditional allocation method and applied overhead at a rate of $21 per machine hour. It was determined that there were three cost pools, and the overhead for each cost pool is shown: The cost driver for each cost pool and its expected activity is shown: A. What is the per-unit cost for each product under the traditional allocation method? B. What is the per-unit cost for each product under ABC costing?

Kelson Sporting Equipment, Inc., makes two types of baseball gloves: a regular model and a catchers model. The firm has 900 hours of production time available in its cutting and sewing department, 300 hours available in its finishing department, and 100 hours available in its packaging and shipping department. The production time requirements and the profit contribution per glove are given in the following table: Assuming that the company is interested in maximizing the total profit contribution, answer the following: a. What is the linear programming model for this problem? b. Develop a spreadsheet model and find the optimal solution using Excel Solver. How many of each model should Kelson manufacture? c. What is the total profit contribution Kelson can earn with the optimal production quantities? d. How many hours of production time will be scheduled in each department? e. What is the slack time in each department?

Lean principles Rag Swag Inc. manufactures various styles of mens casual wear. Shirts are cut and assembled by a workforce that is paid by piece rate. This means that they are paid according to the amount of work completed during a period of time. To illustrate, if the piece rate is 0.10 per sleeve assembled, and the worker assembles 800 sleeves during the day, then the worker would be paid 80 (800 0.10) for the days work. The company is considering adopting a lean manufacturing philosophy by organizing work cells around various types of products and employing pull manufacturing. However, no change is expected in the compensation policy. On this point, the manufacturing manager stated the following: Piecework compensation provides an incentive to work fast. Without it, the workers will just goof off and expect a full days pay. We cant pay straight hourly wagesat least not in this industry. How would you respond to the manufacturing managers comments?

Andalus Furniture Company has two manufacturing plants, one at Aynor and another at Spartanburg. The cost in dollars of producing a kitchen chair at each of the two plants is given here. The cost of producing Q1 chairs at Aynor is: 75Q1+5Q12+100 and the cost of producing Q2 kitchen chairs at Spartanburg is: 25Q2+2.5Q22+150. Andalus needs to manufacture a total of 40 kitchen chairs to meet an order just received. How many chairs should be made at Aynor, and how many should be made at Spartanburg in order to minimize total production cost?

Bristol is developing material standards for her company. The operations manager wants grade A plastic tops because they are the easiest to work with and are the quality the customers want. Grade B will not work because customers do not want the lower grade, and it takes more time to assemble the product than with grade A materials. Bristol calls several suppliers to get prices for the plastic top. All are within $0.10 of each other. Since the company will use millions of the plastic tops, she decides that the $0.10 difference is important. The supplier who has the lowest price is known for delivering late and low- quality materials. Bristol decides to use the supplier who is $0.04 more but delivers on time and at the right quality. This supplier charges $0.52 per plastic top. Each unit of product requires six plastic tops. What is the standard cost per unit for plastic tops?

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Piper Rose Boutique has been approached by the community college to make special polo shirts for the faculty and staff. The college is willing to buy 4,000 polos with its own design for $6.00 each. The company normally sells its shirts for $12.00 each. The company has enough excess capacity to make this order. A breakdown of the costs is as follows: Line Item Description Costs Direct materials $2.00 Direct labor 0.50 Variable factory overhead 1.50 Fixed factory overhead 2.50 Total cost per unit $6.50   Should Piper Rose Boutique accept the special order made by the college? Question Content Area   blankProposal to Sell Polo Shirts to Collegeblank Line Item Description Amount Differential revenue from accepting offer $Differential revenue from accepting offer Differential variable costs of additional units Differential variable costs of additional units Differential income (loss) from accepting the offer $Differential income (loss) from accepting the offer