Exam 6: Differential Analysis: The Key to Decision Making

Jerston Company has an annual plant capacity of 3,000 units. Data concerning this product are given below: The company has received a special order for 500 units at a selling price of $45 each. Regular sales would not be affected, and sales commissions on the 500 units would be reduced by one-third. This special order would have no impact on total fixed costs. Required: Determine whether the company should accept the special order. Show all computations.

Suppose there is not enough idle capacity to produce all of the units for the overseas customer and accepting the special order would require cutting back on production of 200 units for regular customers. The minimum acceptable price per unit for the special order is closest to:

What is the differential cost of Alternative B over Alternative A, including all of the relevant costs?

Ellis Television makes and sells portable televisions. Each television regularly sells for $210. The following cost data per television is based on a full capacity of 10,000 televisions produced each period. A special order has been received by Ellis for a sale of 2,000 televisions to an overseas customer. The only selling costs that would be incurred on this order would be $6 per television for shipping. Ellis is now selling 6,000 televisions through regular channels each period. What should be the minimum selling price per television in negotiating a price for this special order?

Consider the following production and cost data for two products, X and Y: The company has 15,000 machine hours available each period, and there is unlimited demand for each product. What is the largest possible total contribution margin that can be realized each period?

Block Corporation makes three products that use the current constraint, which is a particular type of machine. Data concerning those products appear below: Required: a. Rank the products in order of their current profitability from the most profitable to the least profitable. In other words, rank the products in the order in which they should be emphasized. Show your work! b. Assume that sufficient constraint time is available to satisfy demand for all but the least profitable product. Up to how much should the company be willing to pay to acquire more of the constrained resource?

Wright Company produces products I, J, and K from a single raw material input. Budgeted data for the next month follows: If the cost of the raw material input is $78,000, which of the products should be processed beyond the split-off point?

In addition to the facts given above, assume that the space used to produce part R20 could be used to make more of one of the company's other products, generating an additional segment margin of $27,000 per year for that product. What would be the impact on the company's overall net operating income of buying part R20 from the outside supplier and using the freed space to make more of the other product?

Rojo Corporation has received a request for a special order of 8,000 units of product W68 for $27.20 each. Product W68's unit product cost is $18.50, determined as follows: Direct labor is a variable cost. The special order would have no effect on the company's total fixed manufacturing overhead costs. The customer would like modifications made to product W68 that would increase the variable costs by $7.90 per unit and that would require an investment of $31,000 in special molds that would have no salvage value. This special order would have no effect on the company's other sales. The company has ample spare capacity for producing the special order. If the special order is accepted, the company's overall net operating income would increase (decrease) by:

Humes Corporation makes a range of products. The company's predetermined overhead rate is $16 per direct labor-hour, which was calculated using the following budgeted data: Management is considering a special order for 700 units of product J45K at $64 each. The normal selling price of product J45K is $75 and the unit product cost is determined as follows: If the special order were accepted, normal sales of this and other products would not be affected. The company has ample excess capacity to produce the additional units. Assume that direct labor is a variable cost, variable manufacturing overhead is really driven by direct labor-hours, and total fixed manufacturing overhead would not be affected by the special order. Required: If the special order were accepted, what would be the impact on the company's overall profit?

Rothery Co. manufactures and sells medals for winners of athletic and other events. Its manufacturing plant has the capacity to produce 18,000 medals each month; current monthly production is 17,100 medals. The company normally charges $88 per medal. Cost data for the current level of production are shown below: The company has just received a special one-time order for 600 medals at $73 each. For this particular order, no variable selling and administrative costs would be incurred. This order would also have no effect on fixed costs. Required: Should the company accept this special order? Why?

Nutall Corporation is considering dropping product N28X. Data from the company's accounting system appear below: All fixed expenses of the company are fully allocated to products in the company's accounting system. Further investigation has revealed that $199,000 of the fixed manufacturing expenses and $114,000 of the fixed selling and administrative expenses are avoidable if product N28X is discontinued. Required: a. According to the company's accounting system, what is the net operating income earned by product N28X? Show your work! b. What would be the effect on the company's overall net operating income of dropping product N28X? Should the product be dropped? Show your work!

Power Systems Inc. manufactures jet engines for the United States armed forces on a cost-plus basis. The production cost of a particular jet engine is shown below: If production of this engine was discontinued, the production capacity would be idle, and the supervisor would be laid off. The depreciation referred to above is for special equipment that would have no resale value and that does not wear out through use. When asked to bid on the next contract for this engine, the minimum unit price that Power Systems should bid is:

Janus Corporation has in stock 43,700 kilograms of material L that it bought five years ago for $6.10 per kilogram. This raw material was purchased to use in a product line that has been discontinued. Material L can be sold as is for scrap for $3.23 per kilogram. An alternative would be to use material L in one of the company's current products, E99D, which currently requires 2 kilograms of a raw material that is available for $9.45 per kilogram. Material L can be modified at a cost of $0.62 per kilogram so that it can be used as a substitute for this material in the production of product E99D. However, after modification, 3 kilograms of material L is required for every unit of product E99D that is produced. Janus Corporation has now received a request from a company that could use material L in its production process. Assuming that Janus Corporation could use all of its stock of material L to make product E99D or the company could sell all of its stock of the material at the current scrap price of $3.23 per kilogram, what is the minimum acceptable selling price of material L to the company that could use material L in its own production process?

The opportunity cost of making a component part in a factory with no excess capacity is the:

Pappan Corporation makes three products that use compound W, the current constrained resource. Data concerning those products appear below: Rank the products in order of their current profitability from most profitable to least profitable. In other words, rank the products in the order in which they should be emphasized.

If the new cabinet product line is added next year, the increase in net operating income resulting from this decision would be:

Which of the intermediate products should be processed further?

Iwasaki Inc. is considering whether to continue to make a component or to buy it from an outside supplier. The company uses 13,000 of the components each year. The unit product cost of the component according to the company's cost accounting system is given as follows: Assume that direct labor is a variable cost. Of the fixed manufacturing overhead, 30% is avoidable if the component were bought from the outside supplier. In addition, making the component uses 1 minute on the machine that is the company's current constraint. If the component were bought, this machine time would be freed up for use on another product that requires 2 minutes on this machine and that has a contribution margin of $5.20 per unit. When deciding whether to make or buy the component, what cost of making the component should be compared to the price of buying the component?

Which product makes the LEAST profitable use of the grinding machines?