Exam 26: Transfer Pricing

Division Delta of Golvin Corporation makes and sells a single product which is used by manufacturers of fork lift trucks.Presently it sells 9,000 units per year to outside customers at $57 per unit.The annual capacity is 10,000 units and the variable cost to make each unit is $32.Division Echo of Golvin Corporation would like to buy 2,000 units a year from Division Delta to use in its products.There would be no cost savings from transferring the units within the company rather than selling them on the outside market.What should be the lowest acceptable transfer price from the perspective of Division Delta?

(Appendix 11A) Tommasino Products, Inc., has a Motor Division that manufactures and sells a number of products, including a standard motor that could be used by another division in the company, the Automotive Division, in one of its products. Data concerning that motor appear below: The Automotive Division is currently purchasing 9,000 of these motors per year from an overseas supplier at a cost of $72 per motor. -Assume that the Motor Division is selling all of the motors it can produce to outside customers.Does there exist a transfer price that would make both the Motor and Automotive Division financially better off than if the Automotive Division were to continue buying its motors from the outside supplier?