Herold manages a company that makes and sells two kinds of speakers, the Boomer and the Rocker. Each Boomer takes 7 hours to create the plastic parts, 4 hours to create the electronics, and 5 hours for assembly. Each Rocker requires 6 hours to create the plastic parts, 4 hours to create the electronics, and 10 hours for assembly. The factory can handle a maximum of 3388 hours to create the plastic parts, 2008 hours to create the electronics, and 3720 hours for assembly each week. If each Boomer generates $8 in income, and each Rocker generates $6, how many of each of the speakers should Herold have the company make and sell each week to earn the most income? Boomer: Rocker: Best income:

Crede Inc. has two divisions. Division A makes and sells student desks. Division B manufactures and sells reading lamps. Each desk has a reading lamp as one of its components. Division A can purchase reading lamps at a cost of $10.10 from an outside vendor. Division A needs 11,100 lamps for the coming year. Division B has the capacity to manufacture 49,600 lamps annually. Sales to outside customers are estimated at 38,500 lamps for the next year. Reading lamps are sold at $12.09 each. Variable costs are $6.87 per lamp and include $1.41 of variable sales costs that are not incurred if lamps are sold internally to Division A. The total amount of fixed costs for Division B is $75,900. Consider the following independent situations. What should be the minimum transfer price accepted by Division B for the 11,100 lamps and the maximum transfer price paid by Division A? (Round answers to 2 decimal places, e.g. 15.25.) Per unit Minimum transfer price accepted by Division B $_ Maximum transfer…

Carlton’s 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 estimatedthat 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: 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?

Talbot Industries manufactures two models of wireless headset: TI-12 and TI-28. Each product requires time on a single machine. The machine has a monthly capacity of 540 hours. Total market demand for the two products is limited to 2,000 units of TI-12 and 1,000 units of TI-28 monthly. Talbot is currently producing and selling 1,500 TI-12 models and 780 TI-28 models each month. Cost and machine-usage data for the two products are shown in the following spreadsheet, which analysts at Talbot use for production planning purposes: Price Less variable costs per unit Material Labor Overhead Contribution margin per unit Fixed costs Manufacturing Marketing and administrative Machine hours per unit Machine hours used Machine hours available Quantity produced Maximum demand Profit Required A Required B TI-12 Model TI-28 Model TI-12 $ 80 23 29 8 $ 20 units units 0.1

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Trident Ltd makes designer gold bracelets. Their annual costs include shop rent of $12,500, salaries for two jewellers of $118,000, design software costs of $10,000, and other overhead costs of $13,000. An average bracelet is priced at $5,500. It costs $2,000 in raw material, $1,250 in labour, and $250 in other expenses. What is the minimum number of bracelets that need to be sold to earn a profit? a.28 b. 44 c. 77 d. 17

The Wolverine Corporation is working at full production capacity producing 9,000 units of a unique product, Everlast. Manufacturing cost per unit for Everlast is as follows: (Click the icon to view the cost per unit information.) A customer, the Apex Company, has asked Wolverine to produce 3,500 units of Stronglast, a modification of Everlast. Stronglast would require the same manufacturing processes as Everlast. Apex has offered to pay Wolverine $31 for a unit of Stronglast plus half of the marketing cost per unit. Read the requirements. Requirement 1. What is the opportunity cost to Wolverine of producing the 3,500 units of Stronglast? (Assume that no overtime is worked.) Determine the formula for calculating the opportunity cost, then calculate the opportunity cost of producing the 3,500 units of Stronglast Selling price per unit Total variable cost per unit Units 3,500 38 $ 20 ( ($ Selling price per unit Total variable cost per unit Contribution margin per unit Contribution margin…