Salvador SA assembles motorcycles and uses long-run (defined as 35 years) average demand to set the budgeted
Question:
Salvador SA assembles motorcycles and uses long-run (defined as 3–5 years) average demand to set the budgeted production level and costs for pricing. Prices are then adjusted only for large changes in assembly wage rates or direct materials prices. You are given the following data:
Required
1 What operating profit percentage on revenues is needed to attain the target return on investment of 20%? What is the selling price per unit?
2 Using the selling price per unit calculated in requirement 1, what rate of return on investment will be earned if Salvador assembles and sells 1 500 000 units? 500 000 units?
3 The company has a management bonus plan based on yearly division performance. Assume that Salvador assembled and sold 1 000 000 units, 1 500 000 units and 500 000 units in three successive years. Each of three people served as divisional manager for one year before being killed in a car accident. As the principal heir of the third manager, comment on the bonus plan.
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Management And Cost Accounting
ISBN: 9781292436029
8th Edition
Authors: Alnoor Bhimani, Srikant Datar, Charles Horngren, Madhav Rajan