Auto Lavage is a Canadian company that owns and operates a large automatic carwash facility near Quebec. The following table provides data concerning the company's expected costs: Fixed Cost Cost per Car Washed $0.90 per Month Cleaning supplies Electricity Maintenance $ 3,450 0.30 0.50 Wages and salaries Depreciation 6,600 10,200 0.60 4,000 3,740 Rent Administrative expenses 0.07 For example, electricity costs are $3,450 per month plus $0.30 per car washed. The company expects to wash 9,900 cars in October and to collect an average of $7.80 per car washed. Auto Lavage's actual level of activity was 10,000 cars. The actual revenues and expenses for October are given below: Auto Lavage Income Statement For the Month Ended October 31 Actual cars washed Sales 10,000 $79,900

The Borstal Company has to choose between two machines that do the same job but have different lives. The two machines have the following costs: Year Machine A 0 OLN3+ 1 2 4 $48,000 11,600 11,600 11,600 + replace Machine A Machine B These costs are expressed in real terms. a. Suppose you are Borstal's financial manager. If you had to buy one or the other machine and rent it to the production manager for that machine's economic life, what annual rental payment would you have to charge? Assume a 12% real discount rate and ignore taxes. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as a positive value rounded to 2 decimal places.) Machine B $58,000 11,200 11, 200 11,200 11,200 + replace Annual Rental Payment

Kofi Abebrese runs a small industrial company that specialized in the production of high standardwindows for housing estates. A worker is paid GH¢0.9 per hour and can produce two window swith an hour. Each window uses a frame costing GH¢1 and incur a variable overheads of GH¢0.7.Each window sells for GH¢3. Currently, due to the economic condition, work is rather slack and three employees are occupied in carrying out extensive repairs to Kofi Abebrese's own house.Kofi owns a warehouse next to the factory, which had been used as a factory store, in the past. Itis now let out on a renewable annual lease of GH¢600.A new building company, Allied Consult, which specializes in the production of prefabricatedhouses has asked Kofi if he would be interested in accepting a contract for GH¢30,000 which willbe for a year initially, to produce molded internal building sections. Kofi estimates that, thecontract will take 13,200 hours of works, or the work of five men for a year, and that…

Baird Trophies makes and sells trophies it distributes to little league ballplayers. The company normally produces and sells between 9,000 and 15,000 trophies per year. The following cost data apply to various activity levels:

Easton Company makes and sells scooters. Easton incurred the following costs in its most recent fiscal year: Cost Items Appearing on the Income Statement Materials cost ($10 per unit) Company president's salary Depreciation on manufacturing equipment Salaries of administrative personnel Labor cost ($4 per unit) Advertising costs (150,000 per year) Shipping and handling ($500 per year) Research and development costs Real estate taxes on factory Inspection costs Easton can currently purchase the scooters it makes from Weston Company. If the company purchases the scooters, Easton would still continue to use its own logo, sales staff, and advertising programs. If Easton outsources the scooters to Weston, which of the following costs would be relevant to the outsourcing decision? Multiple Choice X Materials cost Shipping and handling Inspection costs All of these answers are correct.

Perez Company makes and sells lawn mowers for which it currently makes the engines. It has an opportunity to purchase the engines from a reliable manufacturer. The annual costs of making the engines are shown here. Cost of materials (13,300 units × $13) $ 172,900 Labor (13,300 units × $14) 186,200 Depreciation on manufacturing equipment* 29,000 Salary of supervisor of engine production 69,000 Rental cost of equipment used to make engines 15,000 Allocated portion of corporate-level facility-sustaining costs 79,000 Total cost to make 13,300 engines $ 551,100 *The equipment has a book value of $109,000 but its market value is zero. Required Determine the maximum price per unit that Perez would be willing to pay for the engines. Determine the maximum price per unit that Perez would be willing to pay for the engines, if production increased to 19,000 units.

Futura Company purchases 75,000 starters from a supplier at $11.10 per unit that it installs in farm tractors. Due to a reduction in output, the company now has enough idle capacity to produce the starters rather than buying them from the supplier. However, the company's chief engineer is opposed to making the starters because the production cost per unit is $12.20, as shown below: Direct materials Direct labor Supervision Depreciation Variable manufacturing overhead Rent Total product cost Per Unit $ 5.00 3.00 1.80 1.46 2.66 2.40 $ 12. 26 Total $ 135,000 $ 185,000 $ 30,000 If Futura decides to make the starters, a supervisor would be hired (at a salary of $135,000) to oversee production. However, the company has sufficient idle tools and machinery such that no new equipment would have to be purchased. The rent charge above is based on space utilized in the plant. The total rent on the plant is $83.000 per period. Required: What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of making the…