Managerial Accounting (5th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134128528
Author: Karen W. Braun, Wendy M. Tietz
Publisher: PEARSON
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To conclude: If the company DF should discontinue any of the departments.
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1 Mr Gardens, the financial controller of Sugarland Ltd, accidentally tossed the company's cost
records into a wastebasket which had been light .On realising that mistake, he rushed to the
roaring blaze and managed to retrieve only a few of the records. From the salvaged records, he
managed to determine the following facts about the current year 2020:
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(ii) The beginning inventories for the year were: work in progress sh 120,000;
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The actual and planned data for Broadwater Institute & Technical School for the Fall term were as follows:
Enrollment
Tuition per credit hour
Credit hours
cost.
Line Item Description
Revenue
Variable costs:
Registration, records, and marketing costs per enrolled student
Instructional costs per credit hour
Depreciation on classrooms and equipment
$1,875,000
Registration, records, and marketing costs vary by the number of enrolled students, while instructional costs vary by the number of credit hours. Depreciation is a fixed
Registration, records, and marketing costs $
Instructional costs
Total variable costs
Amount
Contribution margin
Depreciation on classrooms and equipment
Operating income
Actual
Prepare a variable costing income statement showing the contribution margin and operating income for the Fall term.
Broadwater Institute & Technical School
Variable Costing Income Statement
For the Fall Term
5,000
$115
$
$
80,000
$300
$45
Planned
4,500
$100
72,000
$300
$40
$1,875,000
Chilton Day School allocates marketing and administrative costs to its three schools on the basis of each school's annual tuition
revenue (as a percentage of the total). Last year the allocations (000s omitted) were as follows:
Tuition revenue
Marketing and administration
Preschool
$ 1,690
370
Cost allocation
Preschool
Middle
School
$ 1,990
420
In the current year, the middle and high schools experienced no change in revenues, but the preschool's tuition revenue increased to
$2.09 million. Marketing and administrative costs rose to $1,440,000.
High School
$ 2,390
495
Required:
1. Using revenue as an allocation base, how much current year cost will be allocated to the: (Do not round intermediate calculations.
Round your final answers to the nearest whole dollar amounts. Similar to the given information, omit 000s from your answer.)
Middle School
Total
$ 6,070
1,285
High School
$
Total
0
Chapter 8 Solutions
Managerial Accounting (5th Edition)
Ch. 8 - Prob. 1QCCh. 8 - (Learning Objective 1) Keys to making short-term...Ch. 8 - (Learning Objective 2) Which is true of...Ch. 8 - (Learning Objective 3) Which of the following...Ch. 8 - Prob. 5QCCh. 8 - Prob. 6QCCh. 8 - (Learning Objective 4) A segment margin is the a....Ch. 8 - (Learning Objective 5) When resources are...Ch. 8 - (Learning Objective 6) Which of the following is...Ch. 8 - Prob. 10QC
Ch. 8 - Determine relevance of information (Learning...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.2SECh. 8 - Prob. 8.3SECh. 8 - Prob. 8.4SECh. 8 - Prob. 8.5SECh. 8 - Prob. 8.6SECh. 8 - Prob. 8.7SECh. 8 - Prob. 8.8SECh. 8 - Product mix decision: Unlimited demand (Learning...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.10SECh. 8 - Outsourcing production decision (Learning...Ch. 8 - Relevant information for outsourcing delivery...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.13SECh. 8 - Prob. 8.14SECh. 8 - Prob. 8.15SECh. 8 - Determine relevant and irrelevant information...Ch. 8 - SUSTAINABILITY ES-17A Sustainability and...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.18AECh. 8 - Prob. 8.19AECh. 8 - Analyze special order decision (Learning Objective...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.21AECh. 8 - Prob. 8.22AECh. 8 - Prob. 8.23AECh. 8 - Discontinuing a product line (Learning Objective...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.25AECh. 8 - Determine product mix for retailertwo stocking...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.27AECh. 8 - Make-or-buy product component (Learning Objective...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.29AECh. 8 - Prob. 8.30AECh. 8 - Prob. 8.31AECh. 8 - Prob. 8.32BECh. 8 - Prob. 8.33BECh. 8 - Prob. 8.34BECh. 8 - Prob. 8.35BECh. 8 - Prob. 8.36BECh. 8 - Prob. 8.37BECh. 8 - Prob. 8.38BECh. 8 - Prob. 8.39BECh. 8 - Prob. 8.40BECh. 8 - Identify constraint, then determine product mix...Ch. 8 - Determine product mix for retailertwo stocking...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.43BECh. 8 - Prob. 8.44BECh. 8 - Prob. 8.45BECh. 8 - Determine maximum outsourcing price (Learning...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.47BECh. 8 - Prob. 8.48APCh. 8 - Special order decision and considerations...Ch. 8 - Prepare and use contribution margin statements for...Ch. 8 - Product mix decision under constraint (Learning...Ch. 8 - Outsourcing decision given alternative use of...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.53APCh. 8 - Prob. 8.54BPCh. 8 - Prob. 8.55BPCh. 8 - Prepare and use contribution margin statements for...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.57BPCh. 8 - Prob. 8.58BPCh. 8 - Prob. 8.59BPCh. 8 - Decide whether to discontinue a department...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.61ACTCh. 8 - Outsourcing Decision at a Real Company Go to the...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8.63ACTCh. 8 - Prob. 8.64ACT
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