Exam 25: Differential Analysis and Product Pricing

An employee of Morgan Corporation has found some partially completed units of Model X in a dusty corner of the warehouse. A job ticket attached to the units indicates that a total of $750 in manufacturing costs have been used to bring the materials to this point in the manufacturing process. The units can be sold in their current condition for $275 to a scrap metal dealer. If Morgan spends $250 to complete the units, they could be sold for $600. Required: A. What should Morgan do? Why? B. Identify the sunk cost, if any.

When a bottleneck occurs between two products, the company must determine the contribution margin for each product and manufacture the product that has the highest contribution margin per bottleneck hour.

MZE Manufacturing Company has a normal plant capacity of 37,500 units per month. Because of an extra large quantity of inventory on hand, it expects to produce only 30,000 units in May. Monthly fixed costs and expenses are $112,500 ($3 per unit at normal plant capacity) and variable costs and expenses are $8.25 per unit. The present selling price is $13.50 per unit. The company has an opportunity to sell 7,500 additional units at $9.90 per unit to an exporter who plans to market the product under its own brand name in a foreign market. The additional business is therefore not expected to affect the regular selling price or quantity of sales of MZE Manufacturing Company.

Widgeon Co. manufactures three products: Bales; Tales; and Wales. The selling prices are: $55; $78; and $32, respectively. The variable costs for each product are: $20; $50; and $15, respectively. Each product must go through the same processing in a machine that is limited to 2,000 hours per month. Bales take 5 hours to process, Tales take 7 hours, and Wales take 1 hour. Assume that Widgeon produced enough product with the highest contribution margin per unit to use 1,000 hours of machine time. Product demand does not warrant any more production of that product. What is the maximum additional contribution margin that can be realized by utilizing the remaining 1,000 hours on the product with the second highest contribution margin per hour?

An oven with a book value of $67,000 has an estimated 5 year life. A proposal is offered to sell the oven for $8,500 and replace it with a new oven costing $110,000. The new machine has a five year life with no residual value. The new machine would reduce annual maintenance costs by $23,000. Provide a differential analysis on the proposal to replace the machine.

Pheasant Co. can further process Product B to produce Product C Product B is currently selling for $30 per pound and costs $28 per pound to produce. Product C would sell for $60 per pound and would require an additional cost of $24 per pound to produce. What is the differential cost of producing Product C?

Which of the following is NOT a cost concept commonly used in applying the cost-plus approach to product pricing?

Super Security Company manufacturers home alarms. Currently it is manufacturing one of its components at a variable cost of $45 and fixed costs of $15 per unit. An outside provider of this component has offered to sell Safe Security the component for $50. Determine the best plan and calculate the savings.

In using the variable cost concept of applying the cost-plus approach to product pricing, fixed manufacturing costs and both fixed and variable selling and administrative expenses must be covered by the markup.

The amount of income that would result from an alternative use of cash is called opportunity cost.

The Owl Company produces and sells Product X at a total cost of $35 per unit, of which $28 is product cost and $7 is selling and administrative expenses. In addition, the total cost of $35 is made up of $24 variable cost and $11 fixed cost. The desired profit is $6 per unit. Determine the mark up percentage on product cost.

Opportunity cost is the amount of increase or decrease in cost that would result from the best available alternative to the proposed use of cash or its equivalent.

Differential revenue is the amount of income that would result from the best available alternative proposed use of cash.

In deciding whether to accept business at a special price, the short-run price should be set high enough to cover all variable costs and expenses.

Olsen Company produces two products. Product A has a contribution margin of $30 and requires 10 machine hours. Product B has a contribution margin of $24 and requires 4 machine hours. Determine the most profitable product assuming the machine hours are the constraint.

The product cost concept includes all manufacturing costs in the cost amount to which the markup is added to determine product price.

Dotterel Corporation uses the variable cost concept of product pricing. Below is cost information for the production and sale of 35,000 units of its sole product. Dotterel desires a profit equal to a 11.2% rate of return on invested assets of $350,000. The markup percentage for the sale of the company's product is:

A business received an offer from an exporter for 10,000 units of product at $17.50 per unit. The acceptance of the offer will not affect normal production or domestic sales prices. The following data is available: What is the differential revenue from the acceptance of the offer?

Eliminating a product or segment may have the long-term effect of reducing fixed costs.

When using the total cost concept of applying the cost-plus approach to product pricing, what is included in the markup?