Check my wo 4 4 point Silven Industries, which manufactures and sells a highly successful line of summer lotions and insect repellents, has decided to diversity in order to stabilize sales throughout the year. A natural area for the company to consider is the production of winter lotions and creams to prevent dry and chapped skin After considerable research, a winter products line has been developed. However, Silven's president has decided to introduce only one of the new products for this coming winter. In the product is a success, further expansion in future years will be initiated. The product selected (called Chap-om) is a lip balm that will be sold in a lipstick-type tube. The product will be sold to wholesalers in boxes of 24 tubes for $9 per box. Because of excess capacity, no additional fixed manufacturing overhead costs will be incurred to produce the product. However, a $139.500 charge for fived manufacturing overhead will be absorbed by the product under the company's absorption costing system Using the estimated sales and production of 155,000 boxes of Chop-off the Accounting Department has developed the following manufacturing cost per box Book Direct saterial Direct labor Manufacturing overhead Total cost $4.30 2.60 1.90 $0.00 The costs above relate to making both the lip balm aod the tube that contains it. As an alternative to making the tubes for Chap-On, Sa v Huntry 4 4 4 Higa V in tiga v cline | | | | | | | | | 7 Ng PHP v c au tu invirn Pu v HH 4 The costs above relate to making both the libam and the tube that contains it. As an alternative to making the tubes for Chap-Of Siven has approached a supplier to discuss the possibility of buying the tubes. The purchase price of the supplier's empty tubes would be $135 per box of 24 tubesIf Silven Industries tops making the tubes and buy them from the outside supplier, its direct labor and variable manufacturing overhead costs per box of Chap Off would be reduced by 10% and its direct materials costs would be reduced by 20% Required: 11 Siven buys is tubes from the outside supplier, how much of its own Chap-Off manufacturing costs per box will it be able to avad? Hint: You need to separate the manufacturing overhead of $190 per box that is shown above into its variable and fed components to derive the correct answer) 2. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) per box of Chap Of Silver buys its tubes from the outside supplier? What is the financial advantage disadvantaqa) in total tot per boxit Silven buy 155.000 boxes of tubes from the outside spaller? 4. Should Silven Industries make or buy the tubes? 5. What is the maximum price that Silven should be willing to pay the outside supplier for a box of 24 tubes? 6. Instead of sales of 155.000 boxes of tubes, revised estimates show a sales volume of 191000 boxes of tubes. At this higher sales volume, Siven would need to rent extra equipment at a cost of $56.000 per year to make the additional 36,000 boxes of tubes Assuming that the outside supplier will not accept an order for less than 91000 boxes of tubes, what is the financial advantage (disadvantage) in total not per box) i Silven buys 191,000 boxes of tubes from the outside supplier? Given this new information should Silven Industries make or buy the tubes 7 Refer to the data in Required 6. Assume that the outside supplier will accept an order of any size for the tubes at a price of $135 per box How many boxes of tubes should Silven make? How many boxes of tubes should it buy from the outside supplier? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below