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 50E
Dropping Product Lines
Freeflight Airlines is presently operating at 70 percent of capacity. Management of the airline is considering dropping Freeflight’s routes between Europe and the United States. If these routes are dropped, the revenue associated with the routes would be lost and the related variable costs saved. In addition, the company’s total fixed costs would be reduced by 20 percent.
Segmented income statements for a typical month appear as follows (all amounts in millions of dollars):
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Prepare a differential cost schedule like the one in Exhibit 4.8 to indicate whether Freeflight should drop the routes between Europe and the United States.
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Freefight Airlines is presently operating at 70 percent of capacity. Management of the airline is considering dropping Freefight's routes between Europe and the United States. If these routes are dropped, the revenue associated with the routes would be lost and the related variable costs saved. In addition, the company's total fixed costs would be reduced by 20 percent.
Segmented income statements for a typical month appear as follows (all amounts in millions of dollars):
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Routes $3.33 $2.77 $ 2.82
Varible costs 1.20 0.97 1.77
Fixed costs allocated to routes 1.66 1.29 1.39
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$700,000
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600,000
Contribution margin
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Fixed costs
496,000
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Eva Freight Forwarding Company has estimated the following amounts for its next year:
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Fundamentals Of Cost Accounting (6th Edition)
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