Reisen Travel offers helicopter service from suburban towns to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Each of its 10 helicopters makes between 1,000 and 2,000 round-trips per year. The records indicate that a helicopter that has made 1,000 round-trips in the year incurs an average operating cost of $350 per round-trip, and one that has made 2,000 round-trips in the year incurs an average operating cost of $300 per round-trip. Q.If Reisen Travel expects each helicopter to make, on average, 1,200 round-trips in the coming year, what should its estimated operating budget for the helicopter fleet be?

Carla Vista Company purchases sails and produces sailboats. It currently produces 1,250 sailboats per year, operating at normal capacity, which is about 80% of full capacity. Carla Vista purchases sails at $262 each, but the company is considering using the excess capacity to manufacture the sails instead. The manufacturing cost per sail would be $94 for direct materials, $84 for direct labor, and $90 for overhead. The $90 overhead is based on $77,500 of annual fixed overhead that is allocated using normal capacity. The president of Carla Vista has come to you for advice. "It would cost me $268 to make the sails," she says, "but only $262 to buy them. Should I continue buying them, or have I missed something?" (a) Prepare a per unit analysis of the differential costs. (Enter negative amounts using either a negative sign preceding the number e.g. -45 or parentheses e.g. (45).) Direct material Direct labor Variable overhead Purchase price Total unit cost Make Sails Carla Vista should tA…

The Mighty Music Company produces and sells a desktop speaker for $200. The company has the capacity to produce 60,000 speakers each period. At capacity, the costs assigned to each unit are as follows: Unit-level costs Product-level costs Facility-level costs The company has received a special order for 11,000 speakers. If this order is accepted, the company will have to spend $20,000 on additional costs. Assuming that no sales to regular customers will be lost if the order is accepted, at what selling price will the company be indifferent between accepting and rejecting the special order? Multiple Choice O O $96.82 $146.82 $104.32 $95 $25 $15 $107.32

Vision Company sells optical equipment. Blitz Company manufactures special glass lenses. Vision orders 11,400 lenses per year, 200 per week, at $35 per lens. Blitz covers all shipping costs. Vision earns 25% on its cash investments. The purchase-order lead time is 2.5 weeks. Vision sells 225 lenses per week. The following data are available:           Relevant ordering costs per purchase order                        $41.25         Relevant insurance, materials handling, breakage,         and so on, per year                                                              $ 4.50   What is the economic order quantity for Vision? a. 328 lenses b. 457 lenses c. 161 lenses d. 266 lenses