Fundamentals Of Cost Accounting (6th Edition)
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ISBN: 9781259969478
Author: WILLIAM LANEN, Shannon Anderson, Michael Maher
Publisher: McGraw Hill Education
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Chapter 4, Problem 47E
Make-or-Buy Decisions
Mel’s Meals 2 Go purchases cookies that it includes in the 10,000 box lunches it prepares and sells annually. Mel’s kitchen and adjoining meeting room operate at 70 percent of capacity. Mel’s purchases the cookies for $0.60 each but is considering making them instead. Mel’s can bake each cookie for $0.20 for materials, $0.15 for direct labor, and $0.45 for
Mel himself has come to you for advice. “It would cost me $0.80 to make the cookies, but only $0.60 to buy. Should I continue buying them?” Materials and labor are variable costs, but variable overhead would be only $0.15 per cookie. Two cookies are put into every lunch.
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How would you advise Mel? Prepare a schedule to show the differential costs.
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Mel's Meals 2 Go purchases cookies that it includes in the 10,000 box lunches it prepares and sells annually. Mel's kitchen and the adjoining meeting room operate at 70 percent of capacity. Mel's purchases the cookies for $0.60 each, but is considering making them instead. Mel's can bake each cookie for $0.20 for materials, $0.15 for direct labor, and $0.45 for overhead without increasing its capacity. The $0.45 for overhead includes an allocation of $0.30 per cookie for fixed overhead. However, total fixed overhead for the company would not increase if Mel's makes the cookies. Mel himself has come to you for advice. "It would cost me $0.80 to make the cookies, but only $0.60 to buy. Should I continue buying them?" Materials and Labor are variable costs, but variable overhead would be only $0.15 per cookie. Two cookies are put into every lunch.
How would you advise Mel? Prepare a schedule to show the differential costs.
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Mel's Meals 2 Go purchases cookies that it includes in the 10,000 box lunches it prepares and sells annually. Mel's kitchen and adjoining meeting room operate at 70 percent of capacity. Mel's purchases the cookies for $0.92 each but is considering making them instead. Mel's can bake each cookie for $0.28 for materials, $0.23 for direct labor, and $0.61 for overhead without increasing its capacity. The $0.61 for overhead includes an allocation of $0.38 per cookie for fixed overhead. However, total fixed overhead for the company would not increase if Mel's makes the cookies.
Mel himself has come to you for advice. "It would cost me $1.12 to make the cookies, but only $0.92 to buy. Should I continue buying them?" Materials and labor are variable costs, but variable overhead would be only $0.23 per cookie. Two cookies are put into every lunch.
Required:
a. Prepare a schedule to show the differential costs per cookie.…
Cost accounting:
Assume that MTA Sandwiches sells sandwiches for $3.25 each. The cost of each sandwich follows:
Materials $1.10, Labor $0.20, Variable Overhead $$0.30, Fixed overhead ($18,000 per month, 1800 units per month) $1.00
Total cost per sandwich $$2.60
One of MTA's regular customer asked the company to fill a special order of sandwiches at a selling price of $2.25 each for a fund-raising event sponsored by a social club at the local college. MTA has capacity to fill it without affecting total fixed costs for the month. MTA's general manager was concerned about selling the sandwiches below the cost of $2.60 per sandwich and has asked for your advice.
Required:
a. Prepare a schedule to show the impact on MTA's profits of providing 600 sandwiches in addition to the regular production and sales 0f 18,000 sandwiches per month.
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