REVEL for Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis -- Access Card (16th Edition) (What's New in Accounting)
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Chapter 13, Problem 13.29P
Cost-plus, target return on investment pricing. Sweet Tastings makes candy bars for vending machines and sells them to vendors in cases of 30 bars. Although Sweet Tastings makes a variety of candy, the cost differences are insignificant, and the cases all sell for the same price.
Sweet Tastings has a total capital investment of $10,000,000. It expects to produce and sell 400,000 cases of candy next year. Sweet Tastings requires a 12% target return on investment.
Expected costs for next year are:
| Variable production costs | $3.00 per case |
| Variable marketing and distribution costs | $2.00 per case |
| Fixed production costs | $400,000 |
| Fixed marketing and distribution costs | $700,000 |
| Other fixed costs | $500,000 |
Sweet Tastings prices the cases of candy at full cost plus markup to generate profits equal to the target return on capital.
- 1. What is the target operating income? Required
- 2. What is the selling price Sweet Tastings needs to charge to earn the target operating income? Calculate the markup percentage on full cost.
- 3. Sweet Tastings is considering increasing its selling price to $13 per case. Assuming production and sales decrease by 10%, calculate Sweet Tastings’ return on investment. Is increasing the selling price a good idea?
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REVEL for Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis -- Access Card (16th Edition) (What's New in Accounting)
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