williamabigan
16.06.2020 •
Business
TufStuff, Inc., sells a wide range of drums, bins, boxes, and other containers that are used in the chemical industry. One of the company’s products is a heavy-duty corrosion-resistant metal drum, called the WVD drum, used to store toxic wastes. Production is constrained by the capacity of an automated welding machine that is used to make precision welds. A total of 2,000 hours of welding time is available annually on the machine. Because each drum requires 0.8 hours of welding machine time, annual production is limited to 2,500 drums. At present, the welding machine is used exclusively to make the WVD drums. The accounting department has provided the following financial data concerning the WVD drums:
Selling price per drum $179.00
Cost per drum:
Direct materials $46.90
Direct labor ($18 per hour) 4.50
Manufacturing overhead 5.55
Selling and administrative expense 17.80 74.75
Margin per drum $104.25
Management believes 3,125 WVD drums could be sold each year if the company had sufficient manufacturing capacity. As an alternative to adding another welding machine, management has considered buying additional drums from an outside supplier. Harcor Industries, Inc., a supplier of quality products, would be able to provide up to 1,800 WVD-type drums per year at a price of $120 per drum, which TufStuff would resell to its customers at its normal selling price after appropriate relabeling.
Megan Flores, TufStuff’s production manager, has suggested that the company could make better use of the welding machine by manufacturing bike frames, which would require only 0.2 hours of welding machine time per frame and yet sell for far more than the drums. Megan believes that TufStuff could sell up to 3,100 bike frames per year to bike manufacturers at a price of $78 each. The accounting department has provided the following data concerning the proposed new product:
Selling price per frame $78.00
Cost per frame:
Direct materials $19.90
Direct labor ($18 per hour) 22.50
Manufacturing overhead 18.15
Selling and administrative expense 8.90 69.45
Margin per frame $8.55
The bike frames could be produced with existing equipment and personnel. Manufacturing overhead is allocated to products on the basis of direct labor-hours. Most of the manufacturing overhead consists of fixed common costs such as rent on the factory building, but some of it is variable. The variable manufacturing overhead has been estimated at $1.29 per WVD drum and $3.00 per bike frame. The variable manufacturing overhead cost would not be incurred on drums acquired from the outside supplier.
Selling and administrative expenses are allocated to products on the basis of revenues. Almost all of the selling and administrative expenses are fixed common costs, but it has been estimated that variable selling and administrative expenses amount to $1.09 per WVD drum whether made or purchased and would be $2.80 per bike frame.
All of the company’s employees—direct and indirect—are paid for full 40-hour workweeks and the company has a policy of laying off workers only in major recessions.
Required:
a. Would you be comfortable relying on the financial data provided by the accounting department for making decisions related to the WVD drums and bike frames?
b. Compute the contribution margin per unit for [assume direct labor is a fixed cost]: (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
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Ответ:
a. Would you be comfortable relying on the financial data provided by the accounting department for making decisions related to the WVD drums and bike frames?
Yes, there is enough information to complete a cost analysis regarding the production of 1,725 drums, purchase of 1,400 from outside vendor and production of 3,100 bike frames.b. Compute the contribution margin per unit for
drums produced internally: $125.22 per unitdrums purchased from outside vendor: $57.91 per unitbike frames: $29.80 per unitExplanation:
machine constraint = 2,000 welding hours per year
each drum required 0.8 hours of welding
annual production limited to 2,500 drums
alternative products:
bikes that use only 0.2 welding hours per, total sales 3,100 x 0.2 = 620 welding hours
hours left for drums = 2,000 - 620 = 1,380 / 0.8 = 1,725 drums
total demand for drums = 3,125 - 1,725 = 1,400 that could be purchased from outside supplier at $120 per unit
total manufacturing overhead:
$5.55 x 2,500 = $13,875
variable $1.29 per drum $3,225 ($3 per bike)
fixed overhead $4.26 per drum $10,650
allocated on the basis of direct labor hours: 0.25 for drums and 1.25 for bike frames
allocation of fixed overhead:
(0.25 x 1,725) + (1.25 x 3,100) = 4,306.25, fixed overhead per hour $2.4731
drums = $0.619
bike frames = $3.091
total S&A expenses:
$17.80 x 2,500 = $44,500
variable $1.09 per drum $2,725 ($2.80 per bike)
fixed expenses $41,775
allocated on the basis of revenues
total revenue = ($179 x 3,125) + ($78 x 3,100) = $801,175, fixed S&A per $ = $41,775 / $801,175 = $0.052142 per $
drums = $9.333
bike frames = $4.068
cost analysis:
drums drums bike
produced purchased frames
selling price: 179 179 78
costs:
purchase price 0 120 0
materials 46.90 0 19.90
labor 4.50 0 22.50
var. man. overhead 1.29 0 3
fixed man. over. 0.619 0 3.091
variable S&A 1.09 1.09 2.80
fixed 9.333 9.333 4.068
subtotal 63.732 130.423 55.359
profit margin 115.268 48.577 22.641
contribution margin
only variable costs 125.22 57.91 29.80
Ответ:
Explanation: