Fundamentals Of Cost Accounting (6th Edition)
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ISBN: 9781259969478
Author: WILLIAM LANEN, Shannon Anderson, Michael Maher
Publisher: McGraw Hill Education
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Chapter 4, Problem 44E
Target Costing and Purchasing Decisions
Mira Mesa Appliances makes and sells kitchen equipment for offices and hotel rooms. Mira Mesa management believes that a new model of refrigerator made out of a synthetic material would sell well at a price of $260. Labor costs are estimated at $32 per unit and overhead costs would be $24 per unit. The major uncertainty is the price of the synthetic material. Mira Mesa is in negotiations with several suppliers for the material. Because of the risk associated with the new product, Mira Mesa will only proceed if the estimated return is at least 30 percent of the selling price.
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What is the most Mira Mesa can pay for the synthetic material per unit (refrigerator) and meet its profitability goal?
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Making outsourcing decisions
Cool Systems manufactures an optical switch that it uses in its final product. The switch has the following manufacturing costs per unit:
Another company has offered to sell Cool Systems the switch for $15.00 per unit. If Cool Systems buys the switch from the outside supplier, the idle manufacturing facilities cannot be used for any other purpose, yet none of the fixed costs are avoidable.</p><p>Prepare an outsourcing analysis to determine whether Cool Systems should make or buy the switch.
Product Decisions Under Bottlenecked Operations
Youngstown Glass Company manufactures three types of safety plate glass: large, medium, and small. All three products have high demand. Thus, Youngstown Glass is able to sell all the safety glass it can make. The production process includes an autoclave operation, which is a pressurized heat treatment. The autoclave is a production bottleneck. Total fixed costs are $167,000 for the company as a whole. In addition, the following information is available about the three products:
Large
Medium
Small
Unit selling price
$381
$209
$199
Unit variable cost
300
171
175
Unit contribution margin
$ 81
$ 38
$ 24
Autoclave hours per unit
6
4
2
Total process hours per unit
18
8
6
Budgeted units of production
2,600
2,600
2,600
a. Determine the contribution margin by glass type and the total company income from operations for the budgeted units of production.
Large
Medium
Small
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Fundamentals Of Cost Accounting (6th Edition)
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