Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis (16th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134475585
Author: Srikant M. Datar, Madhav V. Rajan
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 2, Problem 2.32E
Total and unit cost, decision making. Gayle’s Glassworks makes glass flanges for scientific use. Materials cost $1 per flange, and the glass blowers are paid a wage rate of $28 per hour. A glass blower blows 10 flanges per hour. Fixed
- 1. Graph the fixed, variable, and total manufacturing cost for flanges, using units (number of flanges) on the x-axis.
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- 2. Assume Gayle’s Glassworks manufactures and sells 5,000 flanges this period. Its competitor, Flora’s Flasks, sells flanges for $10 each. Can Gayle sell below Flora’s price and still make a profit on the flanges?
- 3. How would your answer to requirement 2 differ if Gayle’s Glassworks made and sold 10,000 flanges this period? Why? What does this indicate about the use of unit cost in decision making?
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Total and unit cost, decision making. Gayle’s Glassworks makes glass flanges for scientific use. Materials cost $1 per flange, and the glass blowers are paid a wage rate of $28 per hour. A glass blower blows 10 flanges per hour. Fixed manufacturing costs for flanges are $28,000 per period. Period (nonmanufacturing) costs associated with flanges are $10,000 per period and are fixed.
1. Graph the fixed, variable, and total manufacturing cost for flanges, using units (number of flanges) on the x-axis.
2. Assume Gayle’s Glassworks manufactures and sells 5,000 flanges this period. Its competitor, Flora’s Flasks, sells flanges for $10 each. Can Gayle sell below Flora’s price and still make a profit on the flanges?
3. How would your answer to requirement 2 differ if Gayle’s Glassworks made and sold 10,000 flanges this period? Why? What does this indicate about the use of unit cost in decision making?
HASF Glassworks makes glass flanges for scientific use Material cost Rs.10 per flange and the
glass blowers are paid a wage rate of 100 per hours a glass blower blows 20 flanges in two hours.
Fixed manufacturing costs for flanges are 25000 per period. other non-manufacturing cost
associated with flanges are 10,000 per period and are fixed.
Required:
a. Find out variable cost per units and total fixed cost.
b. Assume Company manufactures and sells 10,000 flanges this period their
competitor sells flanges for 15 each. can company sell below competitor price and
make a profit on the flanges
c. How would be your answer to requirement 2 differ if company made and sold
20,000 flanges this period why
HASF Glassworks makes glass flanges for scientific use Material cost $ 1 per flange and the glass blowers are paid a wage rate of 20 per hours a glass blower blows 10 flanges per hours. Fixed manufacturing costs for flanges are 20,000 per period. other nonmanufacturing cost associated with flanges are 10,000 per period and are fixed.
Assume Company manufactures and sells 5,000 flanges this period their competitor sells flanges for 8.25 each. how much profit will be on the flanges if company sells 5000 flanges at price of 8.25.
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Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis (16th Edition)
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