Business Its Legal Ethical & Global Environment
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Author: JENNINGS
Publisher: Cengage
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Ag-Coop is a large farm cooperative with a number of agriculture-related manufacturing and service divisions. As a cooperative, it pays no federal income taxes. The company owns a fertilizer plant that processes and mixes petrochemical compounds into three brands of agricultural fertilizer: greenup, maintane, and winterizer. The three brands differ with respect to selling price and the proportional content of basic chemicals.
Ag-Coop’s Fertilizer Manufacturing Division transfers the completed product to the cooperative’s Retail Sales Division at a price based on the cost of each type of fertilizer plus a markup.
The Manufacturing Division is completely automated so that the only costs it incurs are the costs of the petrochemical feedstocks plus overhead that is considered fixed. The primary feedstock costs $2.00 per pound. Each 100 pounds of feedstock can produce either of the following mixtures of fertilizer.
Output Schedules (in pounds)
A
B
Greenup
50
60
Maintane…
Ag-Coop is a large farm cooperative with a number of agriculture-related manufacturing and service divisions. As a cooperative, it pays no federal income taxes. The company owns a fertilizer plant that processes and mixes petrochemical compounds into three brands of agricultural fertilizer: greenup, maintane, and winterizer. The three brands differ with respect to selling price and the proportional content of basic chemicals.
Ag-Coop’s Fertilizer Manufacturing Division transfers the completed product to the cooperative’s Retail Sales Division at a price based on the cost of each type of fertilizer plus a markup.
The Manufacturing Division is completely automated so that the only costs it incurs are the costs of the petrochemical feedstocks plus overhead that is considered fixed. The primary feedstock costs $1.50 per pound. Each 100 pounds of feedstock can produce either of the following mixtures of fertilizer.
Output Schedules (in pounds)
A
B
Greenup
50
60
Maintane…
Wesco Incorporated’s only product is a combination fertilizer/weedkiller called GrowNWeed. GrowNWeed is sold nationwide to retail nurseries and garden stores.
Zwinger Nursery plans to sell a similar fertilizer/weedkiller compound through its regional nursery chain under its own private label. Zwinger does not have manufacturing facilities of its own, so it has asked Wesco (and several other companies) to submit a bid for manufacturing and delivering a 20,000-pound order of the private brand compound to Zwinger. While the chemical composition of the Zwinger compound differs from that of GrowNWeed, the manufacturing processes are very similar.
The Zwinger compound would be produced in 1,000-pound lots. Each lot would require 25 direct labor-hours and the following chemicals:
Chemicals
Quantity in Pounds
AG-5
300
KL-2
200
CW-7
150
DF-6
175
The first three chemicals (AG-5, KL-2, and CW-7) are all used in the production of GrowNWeed. DF-6 was used in another…
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