Week 8_ Spaghetti Diagram & Your DC Tools Discussion

Monica and Rachel are having a discussion about IRR and NPV as a decisionmodel for Monica’s new restaurant. Monica wants to use IRR because it gives a very simple and intuitive answer. Rachel states that there can be errors made with IRR that are not made with NPV. Elaborate a type of error can be made with IRR but not with NPV.

How difficult is it to expand the original RedBrandmodel? Answer this by adding a new plant, two newwarehouses, and three new customers, and modify thespreadsheet model appropriately. You can make up therequired input data.

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The owner of Barb’s Burgers has suggested the firm should invest in more moderntechnology and created a list of potential changes she thinks may be helpful as aninvestment. She has asked you to analyze the four potential choices and comment onwhat this would change in terms of cost:  Allow Barb’s Burgers to be delivered via the pre-existing food delivery systems.For example, allow people from Doordash/Uber Eats to pick-up orders and deliverthem. This would require the firm to make some minor changes and result in fewerparking spaces for customers dining at the restaurant. • Question: Argue how each of these is likely to change the cost of the firm once implemented (i.e. are any of these a fixed cost or a variable cost). How this adjust the amount of labour and/or capital currently necessary for the firm? Would the technology be a general technology, labour-saving, or capital-saving? Also mention the parking space.

Your firm is considering what to do with the current food distribution platform. The management might upgrade the platform (i.e., upgrading the new food distribution technology) or they can have a vendor construct a new one closer to the headquarters of the firm. What kind of projects are these?

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Richins Company is considering the acquisition of a computerized manufacturing system. The new system has a built in quality function that increases the control over product specifications. An alarm sounds whenever the product falls outside the programmed specifications. An operator can then make some adjustments on the spot to restore the desired product quality. The system is expected to decrease the number of units scrapped because of poor quality. The system is also expected to decrease the amount of labor inputs needed. The production manager is pushing for the aquisition because he believes that productivity will be greatly enhanced - particularly when it comes to labor and material inputs. Output and input data follow. The data for the computerized system are projections.                                         Current System       Computerized System                                                                                                          Output (units)…

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I am doing an activity table on ovens. I know the formula is: activity pool cost / activity base = activity rate 63237 / 370 =171  when I do this and get my numbers the system to input out findings says my numbers are wrong. we use the cengage.  I don't know what I am doing wrong?  I have pasted the numbers below. Please help.  Beth McDonald   Caldwell Home Appliances Inc. is estimating the activity cost associated with producing ovens and refrigerators. The indirect labor can be traced into four separate activity pools, based on time records provided by the employees. The budgeted activity cost and activity-base information are provided as follows:   1 Activity Activity Pool Cost Activity Base 2 Procurement $63,237.00 Number of purchase orders 3 Scheduling 3,933.00 Number of production orders 4 Materials handling 13,032.00 Number of moves 5 Product development 7,035.00 Number of engineering changes 6 Total cost…

Lisa is a contractor, and she owns a small home renovation company that specializes in kitchen renovations. Lisa fears she has been underbidding her projects, and that translates into lost profits that could help sustain her through slow periods. She is putting together an estimate for a potential client and has determined the following activities: Activity Demo of Existing Space Cabinet Installation Countertop Installation Final bid price Cost Driver $ Square Footage # of Hours Square Footage Rate $3.26 /square foot $205 /hour $12.00 /square foot Estimated Use for Job 520 square feet 8 hours Previously, Lisa was billing at a flat rate of $16 per square foot of the demo space with no additional markup. Lisa would like to add a 20% markup to the cost to arrive at the final bid price. Using Activity-Based Costing (ABC), what is the final bid price for her potential customer? (Round intermediate calculations and final answ to 2 decimal places, e.g. 25,000.25.) 280 square feet

Don't use excel or any tables, compute by a conventional method. Completely solve to fill in Blank 1, Blank 2, and Blank 3. Box the final answers. Write legibly or typewrite the solutions. A piece of production equipment is to be replaced immediately because it no longer meets quality requirements for the end product. The two best alternatives are a used piece of equipment (E1) and a new automated model (E2). The economic estimates for each are shown in the accompanying table.   The MARR is 15% per year. Which alternative is preferred based on the: (a) coterminated assumption with a ten-year study period and an imputed market value for Alternative b? Use FW method. FW (E1) = $_____? FW (E2) = $_____? The best alternative is E_____?

Don't use excel or any tables, compute by a conventional method. Completely solve to fill in Blank 1, Blank 2, and Blank 3. Box the final answers. Write legibly or typewrite the solutions. A piece of production equipment is to be replaced immediately because it no longer meets quality requirements for the end product. The two best alternatives are a used piece of equipment (E1) and a new automated model (E2). The economic estimates for each are shown in the accompanying table.   The MARR is 15% per year. Which alternative is preferred based on the: (b) coterminated assumption with a ten-year study period and the estimated market value for Alternative B at the end of year ten is $25,000? Use Present Worth (PW) method. PW (E1) = $_____? PW (E2) = $_____? The best alternative is E_____?

Please answer in your own words After the pandemic ended, most of us are back to in-person work.  However, the remote work and study format has a long-term impact on our society and economy. Also, with the introduction of AI-Generated Content like ChatGPT, our life and labor markets will change. Please discuss how the above one or two new norms will influence your investment decisions, such as which companies and/or industries will benefit from the change, and how you should change your investment strategy (i.e., investing in more stocks or bonds or real estate, investing in which companies, sectors, and industries).

Certain production equipment used by Dayton Mechanical has become obsolete relative to current technology. The company is considering whether it should keep or replace its existing equipment. To aid in this decision, the company’s controller gathered the following data: (See attached) c. What is the total dollar amount of all relevant costs to the equipment replacement decision. $______ d. What is the total dollar amount of the opportunity costs associated with the alternative of keeping the old equipment? $______

I initially did this using a differential analysis, but it seems like the project wants me to do it a different way (see the attached worksheet).  What am I supposed to enter in the blue boxes?  I can understand why the special order should be accepted or not.  The minimum price per unit I got to was $5.87.  I don't know how to do part a) or b) according the the worksheet attached otherwise.  Can you show the formulas too to see how to do it?   The following total cost data are for Ralston Manufacturing Company, which has a normal capacity per period of 400,000 units of product that sell for $18 each.  For the foreseeable future, regular sales volume should continue at normal capacity of production.   Direct Materials $1,720,000 Direct Labor 1,120,000 Variable overhead 560,000 Fixed overhead (Note 1) 880,000 Selling expenses (Note 2) 720,000 Administrative expense (fixed) 200,000   5,200,000   Notes: 1. Beyond normal capacity, fixed overhead cost increases $30,000…

It is your first day at a new job and you talk about the themes of cost system design. One of your new colleagues asks, “If different cost information is used for different purposes, does that mean we do not know what something costs? I thought that was what a cost system reported.” How would you respond?

Productivity and Quality: Prospective Analysis Analytic Company is considering the acquisition of a computerized manufacturing system. The new system has a built-in quality function that increases the control over product specifications. An alarm sounds whenever the product falls outside the programmed specifications. An operator can then make some adjustments on the spot to restore the desired product quality. The system is expected to decrease the number of units scrapped because of poor quality. The system is also expected to decrease the amount of labor inputs needed. The production manager is pushing for the acquisition because he believes that productivity will be greatly enhanced—particularly when it comes to labor and material inputs. Output and input data follow. The data for the computerized system are projections.   Current System Computerized System Output (units) 30,000   30,000   Output selling price $40   $40   Input quantities:        Materials 120,000…

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After the pandemic ended, most of us are back to in-person work.  However, the remote work and study format has a long-term impact on our society and economy. Also, with the introduction of AI-Generated Content like ChatGPT, our life and labor markets will change. Please discuss how the above one or two new norms will influence your investment decisions, such as which companies and/or industries will benefit from the change, and how you should change your investment strategy (i.e., investing in more stocks or bonds or real estate, investing in which companies, sectors, and industries).

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Kagle design engineers are in the process of developing a new “green” product, one that will significantly reduce impact on the environment and yet still provide the desired customer functionality. Currently, two designs are being considered. The manager of Kagle has told the engineers that the cost for the new product cannot exceed $550 per unit (target cost). In the past, the Cost Accounting Department has given estimated costs using a unit-based system. At the request of the Engineering Department, Cost Accounting is providing both unit- and activity-based accounting information (made possible by a recent pilot study producing the activity-based data). Unit-based system:Variable conversion activity rate: $100 per direct labor hourMaterial usage rate: $20 per partABC system:Labor usage: $15 per direct labor hourMaterial usage (direct materials): $20 per partMachining: $75 per machine hourPurchasing activity: $150 per purchase orderSetup activity: $3,000 per setup hourWarranty…

HighFlyer Airlines wants to build new airplanes with greatly increased cabin space.  This will allow passengers more comfort and sell more tickets at a higher price.  However, redesigning the cabin means rethinking many other elements of the airplane as well, like the placement of engines and luggage, and the most efficient shape of the plane for moving through the air.  The company has developed a list of possible methods to increase cabin space, along with estimates of how these approaches would affect costs of operating the plane and sales of airline tickets.  Based on these estimates, the following table shows the value of Research and Development (R&D) projects that provide at least a certain private rate of return.  Column 1 = Private Rate of Return. Column 2 = Value of R&D Projects that Return at Least the Private Rate of Return to HighFlyer Airlines.  Use the data to answer the following questions. Private Rate of Return Value of R&D 12% $100 10% $200 8%…