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Principles of Accounting Volume 2

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ISBN:9781947172609

Author:OpenStax

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Chapter10: Short-term Decision Making

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Company A manufactures two products A and B that sells for 120€ and 80€ respectively. Each product uses only one type of raw materials that costs 6€ per kilogram. The company has the capacity to annually produce 100000 units of each product. The company considers its traceable fixed mahufacturing overhead to be avoidable and its common fixed expenses are unavoidable and have been allocated to products based on sales in euros. Company's average cost per unit for each product at annual level of activity is provided in the table.

Items	Product costs in euro
A	B
Direct materials	30	12
Direct labour	20	15
Variable manufacturing overhead	7	5
Traceable fixed manufacturing overhead	16	18
Variable selling expenses	12	8
Common fixed expenses	15	10
Total costs per unit	100	68

(Answer each question independently unless instructed otherwise)

Calculate, what contribution margin per kilogram of raw material is earned by product A.

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