Introduction
The supplier of the company has increased the price of an important component (LED Bulb) in
the production of flashlights by 50% ($2). The company has already tried to look for solutions
such as changing the supplier or finding a replacement of the part but it has been unsuccessful
because it has an agreement with the supplier and would need the specific part to produce the
product. The challenge faced now by the company is to absorb the costs bared and find a solution
to earn profits from the available amount of products.
Effects of Cost Increase
The cost has increased by a significant amount and this would decrease the company’s raw material
purchases, sales volume, production and profit:
The raw material purchases would be affected as with the same amount of money used in
purchasing the materials, less number of raw materials could be purchased, for example: if we
the material cost per unit is $4 and we purchase raw materials of $1,000,000, we can produce
250,000 units (1,000,000/4). Whereas if the material cost increases to $6, we would only be able
to produce 166,666 units (1,000,000/6) with the same amount of investment in raw materials.
The production capacity would be affected as there would be less amount of raw materials
available with the same amount of investment as the current quarter.
The sales volume would decrease because the production would be less as it is directly affected
by the raw materials purchased.
The
Q5: What is the total unit cost and per unit profit for 1 kg of "complete male" at a retail price of Cr. 6,85 and with an allocation of cr. 1.20 for production fixed expenses?
The company has been functioning well in terms of generating profit and demand so far. However, there will be a 20% increase in demand for the next month of operations as predicted by management, and the production and supply management's problems may come as a problem they can no longer afford.
1. For financial accounting purposes, what is the total amount of product costs incurred to make 10,000 units?
The product cost per unit under absorption costing is $15.00 and under variable costing are 10.60.
• There would not be any capacity relief for Bromont until the production would be increased.
Next, the actual money that spent on this project is far exceed the budgeted amount. To date, it spent 12.55 million more than expected. However, this is not the end, there are still two testing remains incomplete which will cost company more to finish them. Regarding to each items, the item that results in the most unfavorable result is the software development that cost the company 12.90 million more to finish development. We should also notice that the items far behind the schedule are all related to the software. This tells us that the company is extremely not good at developing software. This may due to the sudden change from the medium segmentation focus to the high end products. I would initially recommend the company to have a joint venture with the other high end company to implement this project. However, as the project is almost done, the most important thing is how to promo this product that makes it profitable or at
found out that despite this cost reduction in material cost, the costs of producing the low -end units for
* Since the capacity is being expanded to increase production of Product C, it could be assumed that this increase should be allocated to this product. Production of Product A is to be scaled down, but its level of fixed costs has been assumed to be unchanged.
$1.6 billion / 466 thousand tpy = $3,433 (cost of capital per ton of capacity)
Option 2: Decrease Cost of Goods Sold and Expense by 20% due to the current economic climate.
* Production capacity is 10,000 units a year however they hope to construct a $45 million facility with a capacity of
switching cost to find a different supplier to make a mold for their product to mass produce. The
The company may have to pay higher production costs or may not be able to produce and
with a number of strategic issues facing a capital-intensive, mature industry. Their product costing system was
This has the effect of regarding the desired profit as an increase in the fixed costs to be covered by sales of the product. As the