Assume a company purchases honeycombs from beekeepers for $2.00 a pound. The honey can be sold in raw form for $3.20 a pound or it can be used to make honey drop candies. Each package of candies contains three-quarters of a pound of honey and can be sold for $4.40. In addition to the cost of the honey, making and selling each container of candies incurs additional variable costs of $1.10 per unit. The monthly fixed costs associated with making the candies include: Master candy-maker’s salary $ 3,550 Depreciation of candy-making equipment 400 Salary of salesperson dedicated to this product 2,000 Total fixed costs $ 5,950 The candy-making equipment does not wear out through use and it has no resale value. Assuming the company makes and sells 8,000 containers of candy, what is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of continuing to process raw honey into candies?   Multiple Choice   $(5,150)   $(4,750)   $1,650   $1,250

A dairy farmer has found that it costs $1.84 to produce each gallon of milk, and the daily fixed cost to maintain production is $345. If the farmer charges $3.29 per gallon of milk when he sells it to a large grocery store chain, how many gallons of milk does the farmer need to produce and sell to make a daily profit of $479? (Round your answer to the nearest whole number of gallons.) The farmer needs to produce and sell gallons of milk to make a daily profit of $479.

Muskoka Tools Depot is selling snow blowers for $720.00 each. The same model blowers are being offered by Dixie Appliances for $504.00 each. What rate of discount should Muskoka Tools Depot offer to match the lower price?   The variable costs to manufacture a digital appliance are $260 per appliance and the selling price is $850 per appliance. The fixed costs are $46,520 per month. a. Calculate the contribution margin per appliance. Round to the nearest cent b. Calculate the number of appliances that need to be sold per month to break even.

Tulsa Milling buys oats at $0.60 per pound and produces TPM Oat Flour, TPM Oat Flakes, and TPM Oat Bran. The process of separating the oats into oat flour and oat bran costs $0.30 per pound. The oat flour can be sold for $1.50 per pound, the oat bran for $2.00 per pound. Each pound of oats has 0.2 pounds of oat bran and 0.8 pounds of oat flour. A pound of oat flour can be made into oat flakes for a fixed cost of $240,000 plus a variable cost of $0.60 per pound. Tulsa Milling plans to process 1 million pounds of oats in 20X0, at a purchase price of $600,000. Requirements 1. Allocate all the joint costs to oat flour and oat bran using the physical-units method. 2. Allocate all the joint costs to oat flour and oat bran using the relative-sales-value method. 3. Suppose there were no market for oat flour. Instead, it must be made into oat flakes to be sold. Oat flakes sell for $2.90 per pound. Allocate the joint cost to oat bran and oat flakes using the relative-sales-value method.…

Carmen Co. can further process Product J to produce Product D. Product J is currently selling for $20.60 per pound and costs $15.40 per pound to produce. Product D would sell for $36.90 per pound and would require an additional cost of $10.10 per pound to produce. What is the differential cost of producing Product D?

Snow Company pays a production company to produce phones for them at a cost of $200 each. Variable costs total $120 per phone, and fixed expenses are $1,998,000. Snow Company currently sells the phones for $500. 1. Snow Company found a new company to produce phones at a lower cost of $185. Calculate breakeven point in units. 2. Predicted demand for its phones is 12,000 units. What is the lowest price that can be charged in order to earn a $198,000 profit? 3. Snow Company can sell 14,000 units, but has to increase advertising costs in order to stimulate the extra demand. Snow Company still wants to earn a $198,000 profit, by how much can Snow Co. increase advertising costs to help achieve its goal?

Broomfield Corp. has 1,000 carton of oranges that cost $50 per carton in direct costs and $26.50 per carton in indirect costs and sold for $70 per carton. The oranges can be processed further into orange juice at an additional cost of $22.50 and sold at a price of $126. The incremental income (loss) from processing the oranges into orange juice would be: Multiple Choice ($100,500). $103,500. $92,500. $100,500. $93,500.

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