Portsmouth Company makes upholstered furniture. Its only variable cost is direct materials. The demand for the company's products far exceeds its manufacturing capacity. The bottleneck (or constraint) in the production process is upholstery labor-hours. Information concerning three of Portsmouth's products appears below: Recliner Sofa Love Seat Selling price per unit $ 1,050 Variable cost per unit Upholstery labor-hours per unit $ 750 $ 2,090 $ 1,250 $ 1,500 $ 1,100 6 hours 14 hours 5 hours Required: 1. Portsmouth is considering paying its upholstery laborers hourly compensation, in addition to their usual salaries, to work overtime. Assuming that this extra time would be used to produce sofas, up to how much of an overtime rate per hour should the company be willing to pay to keep the upholstery shop open after normal working hours? 2. A small nearby upholstering company has offered to upholster furniture for Portsmouth at a price of $57 per hour. The management of Portsmouth is confident that this upholstering company's work is high quality and their craftsmen can work as quickly as Portsmouth's own craftsmen on the simpler upholstering jobs such as the Love Seat. How much additional contribution margin per hour can Portsmouth earn if it hires the nearby upholstering company to make Love Seats? 3. Should Portsmouth hire the nearby upholstering company? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Required 1 Required 2 Required 3 Portsmouth is considering paying its upholstery laborers hourly compensation, in addition to their usual salaries, to work overtime. Assuming that this extra time would be used to produce sofas, up to how much of an overtime rate per hour should the company be willing to pay to keep the upholstery shop open after normal working hours? Maximum overtime rate per hour

Portsmouth Company makes upholstered furniture. Its only variable cost is direct materials. The demand for the company's products far exceeds its manufacturing capacity. The bottleneck (or constraint) in the production process is upholstery labor-hours. Information concerning three of Portsmouth's products appears below: Selling price per unit Variable cost per unit Upholstery labor-hours per unit Required 1 Required 2 Recliner $ 1,462 $ 850 Required 3 Maximum overtime rate per hour 9 hours Sofa $ 2,060 $ 1,400 Required: 1. Portsmouth is considering paying its upholstery laborers hourly compensation, in addition to their usual salaries, to work overtime. Assuming this extra time would be used to produce sofas, up to how much of an overtime rate per hour should the company be willing to pay to keep the upholstery shop open after normal working hours? 2. A small nearby upholstering company has offered to upholster furniture for Portsmouth at a price of $52 per hour. The management of…

The constraint at Pickrel Corporation is time on a particular machine. The company makes three products that use this machine. Data concerning those products appear below: 9. VD JT SM Selling price per unit Variable cost per unit Minutes on the constraint $344.85 $415.40 $119.32 $270.18 $310.88 $ 91.96 Sklpped 5.70 6.70 1.90 Rank the products in order of their current profitability from most profitable to least profitable. In other words, rank the products in the order in which they should be emphasized. (Round your Intermedlate calculations to 2 declmal places.) Multiple Cholce JT, SM, VD JT. VD, SM VD, SM, JT SM, VD, JT Mc Graw < Prev 9 of 9 Next 68°F Mostly cloudy Type here to search DELL

Davis Kitchen Supply produces stoves for commercial kitchens. The costs to manufacture and market the stoves at the company's normal volume of 6,000 units per month are shown in the following table. Unit manufacturing costs Variable materials Variable labor Variable overhead Fixed overhead Total unit manufacturing costs Unit marketing costs Variable Fixed Total unit marketing costs Total unit costs. $ 41 66 16 51 16 61 $ 174 77 $ 251 Unless otherwise stated, assume that no connection exists between the situation described in each question; each is independent. Unless otherwise stated, assume a regular selling price of $408 per unit. Ignore income taxes and other costs that are not mentioned in the table or in the question itself. Required: a. Market research estimates that volume could be increased to 7,000 units, which is well within production capacity limitations if the price were cut from $408 to $363 per unit. Assuming that the cost behavior patterns implied by the data in the…