Managerial Accounting: Creating Value in a Dynamic Business Environment
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Author: HILTON, Ronald
Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL HIGHER EDUCATION
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Chapter 15, Problem 41P
1.
To determine
Identify whether target costing or cost-plus pricing approach can be suitably considered as price-led costing.
2.
To determine
Determine Corporation L’s current selling price of item no. 8976.
3.
To determine
Identify the impact on cost, if the company wishes to meet the market price and retain its current rate of profit on sales.
4.
To determine
Identify whether the identification of costs as value added or non-value-added would help Corporation L in the given situation.
5.
To determine
Identify the way in which L Corporation would be forced to do with its markup on cost to remain competitive in the marketplace.
6.
To determine
Explain the statement “prices are the result of an interaction between market forces and costs in many industries”.
7.
To determine
Prepare a spreadsheet for requirement (2) and (3), if the direct material and direct labor unit are changed to $25 and $85 respectively.
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Managerial Accounting: Creating Value in a Dynamic Business Environment
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