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- Kimball Company has developed the following cost formulas: Materialusage:Ym=80X;r=0.95Laborusage(direct):Yl=20X;r=0.96Overheadactivity:Yo=350,000+100X;r=0.75Sellingactivity:Ys=50,000+10X;r=0.93 where X=Directlaborhours The company has a policy of producing on demand and keeps very little, if any, finished goods inventory (thus, units produced equals units sold). Each unit uses one direct labor hour for production. The president of Kimball Company has recently implemented a policy that any special orders will be accepted if they cover the costs that the orders cause. This policy was implemented because Kimballs industry is in a recession and the company is producing well below capacity (and expects to continue doing so for the coming year). The president is willing to accept orders that minimally cover their variable costs so that the company can keep its employees and avoid layoffs. Also, any orders above variable costs will increase overall profitability of the company. Required: 1. Compute the total unit variable cost. Suppose that Kimball has an opportunity to accept an order for 20,000 units at 220 per unit. Should Kimball accept the order? (The order would not displace any of Kimballs regular orders.) 2. Explain the significance of the coefficient of correlation measures for the cost formulas. Did these measures have a bearing on your answer in Requirement 1? Should they have a bearing? Why or why not? 3. Suppose that a multiple regression equation is developed for overhead costs: Y = 100,000 + 100X1 + 5,000X2 + 300X3, where X1 = direct labor hours, X2 = number of setups, and X3 = engineering hours. The coefficient of determination for the equation is 0.94. Assume that the order of 20,000 units requires 12 setups and 600 engineering hours. Given this new information, should the company accept the special order referred to in Requirement 1? Is there any other information about cost behavior that you would like to have? Explain.In 20X1, Don Blackburn, president of Price Electronics, received a report indicating that quality costs were 31% of sales. Faced with increasing pressures from imported goods. Don resolved to take measures to improve the overall quality of the companys products. After hiring a consultant in 20X1, the company began an aggressive program of total quality control. At the end of 20X5, Don requested an analysis of the progress the company had made in reducing and controlling quality costs. The accounting department assembled the following data: Required: 1. Compute the quality costs as a percentage of sales by category and in total for each year. 2. Prepare a multiple-year trend graph for quality costs, both by total costs and by category. Using the graph, assess the progress made in reducing and controlling quality costs. Does the graph provide evidence that quality has improved? Explain. 3. Using the 20X1 quality cost relationships (assume all costs are variable), calculate the quality costs that would have prevailed in 20X4. By how much did profits increase in 20X4 because of the quality improvement program? Repeat for 20X5.Analysis of costs for a shipping department Sales volume has been dropping at Mumford Industries. During this time, the Shipping Department manager has been under severe financial constraints. Most of the Shipping Departments efforts are related to pulling inventory from the warehouse for each order and performing the paperwork. The paperwork involves preparing shipping documents for each order. Thus, the pulling and paperwork effort associated with each sales order is essentially the same, regardless of the size of the order. The Shipping Department manager has discussed the financial situation with senior management. Senior management has responded by pointing out that because sales volume has been dropping, the amount of work in the Shipping Department also should be dropping. Thus, senior management told the Shipping Department manager that costs should be decreasing in the department. The Shipping Department manager prepared the following information: Given this information, how would you respond to senior management?
- In 2011, Milton Thayne, president of Carbondale Electronics, received a report indicating that quality costs were 31 percent of sales. Faced with increasing pressures from imported goods, Milton resolved to take measures to improve the overall quality of the companys products. After hiring a consultant in 20x0, the company began an aggressive program of total quality control. At the end of 20x5, Milton requested an analysis of the progress the company had made in reducing and controlling quality costs. The Accounting Department assembled the following data: Required: 1. Compute the quality costs as a percentage of sales by category and in total for each year. 2. Prepare a multiple-year trend graph for quality costs, both by total costs and by category. Using the graph, assess the progress made in reducing and controlling quality costs. Does the graph provide evidence that quality has improved? Explain. 3. Using the 20x1 quality cost relationships (assume all costs are variable), calculate the quality costs that would have prevailed in 20x4. By how much did profits increase in 20x4 because of the quality improvement program? Repeat for 20x5.Steve Morgan, controller for Newton Industries, was reviewing production cost reports for the year. One amount in these reports continued in to bother him – advertising. During the year the company had instituted an expensive advertisement campaign to sell some of its slower-moving products. It was still too early to tell whether the advertising campaign was successful. There had been much internal debate as how to report advertising cost. The vice president of finance argued that advertising costs should be reported as cost of production, just like direct material and direct labor. He therefore recommended that this cost be identified as manufacturing overhead and reported as part of inventory costs until sold. Others disagreed. Morgan believed that this cost should be reported as an expense of the current period, so as not to overstate net income. Others argued that it should be reported as prepaid advertising and reported as a current asset. The president finally had to decide…Stacy Cummins, the newly hired controller at Merced Home Products, Inc., was disturbed by what she haddiscovered about the standard costs at the Home Security Division. In looking over the past several yearsof quarterly income statements at the Home Security Division, she noticed that the first-quarter profits were always poor, the second-quarter profits were slightly better, the third- quarter profits were againslightly better, and the fourth quarter always ended with a spectacular performance in which the HomeSecurity Division managed to meet or exceed its target profit for the year. She also was concerned to findletters from the company’s external auditors to top management warning about an unusual use of standardcosts at the Home Security Division.When Ms. Cummins ran across these letters, she asked the assistant controller, Gary Farber, if he knewwhat was going on at the Home Security Division. Gary said that it was common knowledge in the companythat the vice president in charge…
- Wolk Corporation is a highly automated manufacturing firm. The vice president of finance has decided that traditional standards are inappropriate for performance measures in an automated environment. Labor for this company is insignificant in terms of the total cost of production and tends to be fixed, material quality is considered more important than minimizing material cost, and customer satisfaction is the number one priority. As a result, delivery performance measures have been chosen to evaluate performance. The following information is considered typical of the time involved to complete customer orders. From time order is placed to time order received by manufacturing 18.0 days From time order is received by manufacturing to time production begins 9.0 days Inspection time 3.5 days Process (manufacturing) time 7.0 days Move time 4.5 days What is the production (manufacturing) lead time for this order? Multiple Choice 34 days. 16…Which of the following may not be the reason for a change in gross profit to occur? a. Increase of spoilage in materials in the production b. Changes in wage rates of employees in the factory c. Increase in salary of clerks in the administrative office of the company customers d. Change of product mixed from budgeted as compared to actualSuppose that Adriana’s decision was prompted mostly by the desire to receivethe computer quickly. Informed that it was losing sales because of the longertime to produce and deliver its products, the management of the company producing Drantex decided to improve delivery performance by improving its internal processes. These improvements decreased the number of defective units andthe time required to produce its product. Consequently, delivery time and costsboth decreased, and the company was able to lower its prices on Drantex.Explain how these actions translate into strengthening the competitive positionof the Drantex PC relative to the Confiar PC. Also discuss the implications forthe management accounting information system.
- Which of the following may not be the reason for a change in gross profit to occur? Increase in salary of clerks in the administrative office of the company customers Increase of spoilage in materials in the production Change of product mixed from budgeted as compared to actual Changes in wage rates of employees in the factoryA manager in your organization just received a special order at a price that is “below cost.” The manager points to the document and says, “These are the kinds of orders that will get you in trouble. Every sale must bear its share of the full costs of running the business. If we sell below our full cost, we'll be out of business in no time.” What do you think of this remark?Which of the following would not be considered a cost ofquality?a. Lost sales due to bad publicity generated by productfailures.b. The cost of repairing merchandise that was dropped bya forklift in the factory.c. The amount of a bonus paid to the work team producingthe fewest defective units.d. The cost of the external audit.
