MAKE OR BUY Blasingham Company is currently manufacturing Part Q108, producing 35,000 units annually. The part is used in the production of several products made by Blasingham. The cost per unit for Q108 is as follows: Of the total fixed overhead assigned to Q108, $77,000 is direct fixed overhead (the lease of production machinery and salary of a production line supervisor—neither of which will be needed if the line is dropped). The remaining fixed overhead is common fixed overhead. An outside supplier has offered to sell the part to Blasingham for $11. There is no alternative use for the facilities currently used to produce the part.

Penagos Corporation is presently making part Z43 that is used in one of its products. A total of 5,000 units of this part are produced and used every year. The company's Accounting Department reports the following costs of producing the part at this level of activity: Direct materials. Direct labor Variable overhead Supervisor's salary Depreciation of special equipment Allocated general overhead An outside supplier has offered to produce and sell the part to the company for $20.80 each. If this offer is accepted, the supervisor's salary and all of the variable costs, including direct labor, can be avoided. The special equipment used to make the part was purchased many years ago and has no salvage value or other use. The allocated general overhead represents fixed costs of the entire company. If the outside supplier's offer were accepted, only $4,000 of these allocated general overhead costs would be avoided. If management decides to buy part Z43 from the outside supplier rather than to…

Utease Corporation has several production plants nationwide. A newly opened plant in Dubuque produces and sells one product. The plant is treated, for responsibility accounting purposes, as a profit center. The unit standard costs for a production unit, with overhead applied based on direct labor hours, are as follows.   Manufacturing costs (per unit based on expected activity of 20,000 units or 44,000 direct labor hours):     Direct materials (2.7 pounds at $20) $ 54.00     Direct labor (2.2 hours at $80)   176.00     Variable overhead (2.2 hours at $30)   66.00     Fixed overhead (2.2 hours at $40)   88.00     Standard cost per unit $ 384.00     Budgeted selling and administrative costs:         Variable $ 4   per unit Fixed $ 1,800,000         Expected sales activity: 18,000 units at $500 per unit Desired ending inventories: 12% of sales   Assume this is the first year of operations for the Dubuque plant. During the year, the company had the following…

Comet, Inc. has been experiencing the following costs when it produces 12,000 units of a subassembly: Direct materials.. .$108,000 Direct labor.... 72,000 100,000 Fixed overhead... A supplier offers to sell Comet an identical product for $18 per unit. Determine whether Comet should continue to make the product or should buy the product under each of the following conditions: (1) The fixed overhead represents the cost of insurance, taxes and depreciation on the manufacturing plant allocated to this product on the basis of the number of square feet occupied by the manufacturing operation. Comet has no alternative plans for use of this space. If Comet makes the product, it would be: (circle one) (a) $114,000 better off (b) $36,000 better off (c) $64,000 worse off (d) $60,000 better off (e) $100,000 worse off (2) The same information as part (1) with the following modification: $40,000 of the fixed costs represent the salary of a production manager who would be let go if Comet discontinues…