Aranda Company is an import-export company that relocated earlier this year in a foreign trade zone (FTZ) in a southwestern city. The company imports $760,000 of fabric from overseas for resale to clothing companies located in the United States. Aranda purchases and receives the fabric about four months before it is sold and shipped to customers; customers are billed and pay in two months. Duty is assessed at 15 percent of cost, and Aranda faces a 6 percent carrying cost. $1 = Y106.0 $1 = E0.84 Required: 1. What is the cost of the Y6,890,000 in dollars? 2. How many euros will Chinook receive from the German company in payment for the finished product? 3. What if the exchange rate of dollars for yen was $1 = Y108? What is the cost of the Y6,890,000 in dollars (rounded to the nearest dollar)?

Bandar Industries Berhad of Malaysia manufactures sporting equipment. One of the company's products, a football helmet for the North American market, requires a special plastic. During the quarter ending June 30, the company manufactured 3,800 helmets, using 2,888 kilograms of plastic. The plastic cost the company $19,061. According to the standard cost card, each helmet should require 0.69 kilograms of plastic, at a cost of $7.00 per kilogram. Required: 1. According to the standards, what cost for plastic should have been incurred to make 3,800 helmets? How much greater or less is this than the cost that was incurred? (Round Standard kilograms of plastic per helmet to 2 decimal places.) Number of helmets Standard kilograms of plastic per helmet Total standard kilograms allowed Standard cost per kilogram Total standard cost Actual cost incurred Total standard cost Total material variance-unfavourable 2. Break down the difference computed in (1) above into a materials price variance and…

Ingles Corporation is a manufacturer of tables sold to schools, restaurants, hotels, and other institutions. The table tops are manufactured by Ingles, but the table legs are purchased from an outside supplier. The Assembly Department takes a manufactured table top and attaches the four purchased table legs. It takes 16 minutes of labor to assemble a table. The company follows a policy of producing enough tables to ensure that 40 percent of next month’s sales are in the finished goods inventory. Ingles also purchases sufficient materials to ensure that materials inventory is 60 percent of the following month’s scheduled production. Ingles’s sales budget inunits for the next quarter is as follows: July 2,450August 2,900September 2,100Ingles’s ending inventories in units for July 31 are as follows:Finished goods 1,900Materials (legs) 4,000 Required:1. Calculate the number of tables to be produced during August. 2. Disregarding your response to Requirement 1, assume the required…

Hicom Goods is a distributor of videotapes. View Mart is a local retail outlet which sells blank and recorded videos. View Mart purchases tapes from Hicom Goods at £3.00 per tape; tapes are shipped in packages of 20. Hicom Goods pays all incoming freight, and View Mart does not inspect the tapes due to Hicom Goods' reputation for high quality. Annual demand is 104,000 tapes at a rate of 4,000 tapes per week. View Mart earns 20% on its cash investments. The purchase-order lead time is two weeks. The following cost data are available: Relevant ordering costs per purchase order Carrying costs per package per year: Relevant insurance, materials handling, breakage, etc., per year £90.50 £4.50 What is the required annual return on investment per package? a. £60.00 b. £2.50 C. £12.00 d. £0.60

Duty-Related Costs of Locating in an FTZ Aranda Company is an import-export company that relocated earlier this year in a foreign trade zone (PTZ) in a southwestern city. The company imports $760,000 of fabric from overseas for resale to dothing companies located in the United States. Aranda purchases and receives the fabric about four months before it is sold and shipped to customers; customers are billed and pay in two months. Duty is assessed at 15 percent of cost, and Aranda faces a 6 percent carrying cost Required: 1. What is the amount of duty paid by Arande last year (before locating in the FTZ) and for this year after relocating to the FTZ? Last Year This Year Duty 2. What is the amount of carrying cost associated with the duty paid by Aranda last year and for this year after relocating to the FTZ? Last Year This Year Carrying cost of duty 3. What is the total duty-related cost for Aranda last year and for this year after relocating to the FTZ? Last Year This Year Total duty…

Jim Overstreet, inventory control manager for Itex, receives wheel bearings from Wheel-Rite, a small producer of metal parts. Unfortunately, Wheel-Rite can produce only 500 wheel bearings per day. Itex receives 10,000 wheel bearings from Wheel-Rite each year. Since Itex operates 200 working days each year, its average daily demand for wheel bearings is 50. The ordering cost for Itex is $40 per order, and the carrying cost is 60 cents per wheel bearing per year. How many wheel bearings should Itex order from Wheel-Rite at one time? Wheel-Rite has agreed to ship the maximum number of wheel bearings that it produces each day to Itex when an order has been received.

Also, Should Smith accept the special order?

Concord Corporation is planning to sell 1200 boxes of ceramic tile, with production estimated at 1170 boxes during May. Each box of tile requires 40 pounds of clay mix and a 0.25 hour of direct labor. Clay mix costs $0.30 per pound and employees of the company are paid $10 per hour. Manufacturing overhead is applied at a rate of 110% of direct labor costs. Concord has 3800 pounds of clay mix in beginning inventory and wants to have 4500 pounds in ending inventory. What is the total amount to be budgeted for direct labor for the month? O $3000 O $11700 O $46800 O $2925

Munoz Air is a large airline company that pays a customer relations representative $3,900 per month. The representative, who processed 1,180 customer complaints in January and 1,370 complaints in February, is expected to process 23,400 customer complaints during the year.Required Determine the total cost of processing customer complaints in January and in February.

Elijah Electronics makes wireless headphone sets. The firm produced 58,500 wireless headphone sets during its first year of operation. At year-end, it had no inventory of finished goods. Elijah sold 54,990 units through regular market channels, but 585 of the units produced were so defective that they had to be sold as scrap. The remaining units were reworked and sold as seconds. For the year, the firm spent $312,000 on prevention costs and $156,000 on quality appraisal. There were no customer returns. An income statement for the year follows. (See attached) a. Compute the total pre-tax profit lost by the company in its first year of operations by selling defective units as seconds or as scrap rather than selling the units through regular channels. $______ b. Compute the total failure cost for the company in its first year. $______ c. Compute total quality cost incurred by the company in its first year. $______