Jyvaskyla Oy is a retail chain of supermarkets. For many years, it has used gross margin (selling
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Jyvaskyla Oy is a retail chain of supermarkets. For many years, it has used gross margin (selling price minus cost of goods sold) to guide it in deciding on which products to emphasise or de-emphasise.
And, for many years, it has not allocated any costs to products. It changed its internal reporting system recently and goods-handling costs are now allocated to individual products on the basis of cubic volume. (Most products are delivered to the shelves in cartons. A detailed study showed that cubic volume was the major driver of Jyvaskyla’s goods-handling costs. These costs make up over 30% of non-cost-of-goods-sold costs of Jyvaskyla.) The following data focus on four products in April 2022:
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Management And Cost Accounting
ISBN: 9781292436029
8th Edition
Authors: Alnoor Bhimani, Srikant Datar, Charles Horngren, Madhav Rajan