Exercise 13-5 (Algo) Volume Trade-Off Decisions [LO13-5] Outdoor Luggage, Incorporated, makes high-end hard-sided luggage for sports equipment. Data concerning three of the company's most popular models appear below. Ski Guard Golf Guard Fishing Guard Selling price per unit $ 250 Variable cost per unit $ 170 $ 370 $ 285 $ 235 $ 145 Plastic injection molding machine processing time required to produce one unit es Pounds of plastic pellets per unit 10 minutes 11 pounds 11 minutes 15 minutes 6 pounds 13 pounds Required: 1. If we assume that the total time available on the plastic injection molding machine is the constraint in the production process, how much contribution margin per minute of the constrained resource is earned by each product? 2. Which product offers the most profitable use of the plastic injection molding machine? 3. If we assume that a severe shortage of plastic pellets has required the company to cut back its production so much that its new constraint has become the total available pounds of plastic pellets, how much contribution margin per pound of the constrained resource is earned by each product? 4. Which product offers the most profitable use of the plastic pellets? 5. Which product has the largest contribution margin per unit? Portsmouth Company makes upholstered furniture. Its only variable cost is direct materials. The demand for the company's products far exceeds its manufacturing capacity. The bottleneck (or constraint) in the production process is upholstery labor-hours. Information concerning three of Portsmouth's products appears below: Recliner Sofa Love Seat Selling price per unit Variable cost per unit Upholstery labor-hours per unit $ 1,312 $ 800 $ 1,955 $ 1,350 $ 1,400 $ 1,050 8 hours 11 hours 5 hours Required: 1. Portsmouth is considering paying its upholstery laborers hourly compensation, in addition to their usual salaries, to work overtime. Assuming that this extra time would be used to produce sofas, up to how much of an overtime rate per hour should the company be willing to pay to keep the upholstery shop open after normal working hours? 2. A small nearby upholstering company has offered to upholster furniture for Portsmouth at a price of $52 per hour. The management of Portsmouth is confident that this upholstering company's work is high quality and their craftsmen can work as quickly as Portsmouth's own craftsmen on the simpler upholstering jobs such as the Love Seat. How much additional contribution margin per hour can Portsmouth earn if it hires the nearby upholstering company to make Love Seats? 3. Should Portsmouth hire the nearby upholstering company? Exercise 13-7 (Algo) Sell or Process Further Decisions [LO13-7] Dorsey Company manufactures three products from a common input in a joint processing operation. Joint processing costs up to the split-off point total $300,000 per quarter. For financial reporting purposes, the company allocates these costs to the joint products on the basis of their relative sales value at the split-off point. Unit selling prices and total output at the split-off point are as follows: Selling Price Product Quarterly Output A $ 10.00 per pound 11,000 pounds B $4.00 per pound 17,300 pounds C $ 16.00 per gallon 2,200 gallons Each product can be processed further after the split-off point. Additional processing requires no special facilities. The additional processing costs (per quarter) and unit selling prices after further processing are given below: Additional Processing Product Costs Selling Price A $ 48,250 $ 14.10 per pound B $ 68,055 $ 9.10 per pound C $ 23,780 $ 23.10 per gallon Required: 1. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of further processing each of the three products beyond the split-off point? 2. Based on your analysis in requirement 1, which product or products should be sold at the split-off point and which product or products should be processed further? Thalassines Kataskeves, S.A., of Greece makes marine equipment. The company has been experiencing losses on its bilge pump product line for several years. The most recent quarterly contribution format income statement for the bilge pump product line follows: Thalassines Kataskeves, 5.A. Income Statement-Bilge Pump For the Quarter Ended March 31 Sales Variable expenses: Variable manufacturing expenses Sales commissions Shipping $470,000 $ 120,000 49,000 Total variable expenses 19,000 188,000 Contribution margin Fixed expenses: 282,000 Advertising (for the bilge pump product line) 22,000 114,000 31,000 123,000 13,000 42,000 345,000 $ (63,000) Depreciation of equipment (no resale value) General factory overhead Salary of product-line manager Insurance on inventories Purchasing department Total fixed expenses Net operating loss *Common costs allocated on the basis of machine-hours. +Common costs allocated on the basis of sales dollars. Discontinuing the bilge pump product line would not affect sales of other product lines and would have no effect on the company's total general factory overhead or total Purchasing Department expenses. Required: What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of discontinuing the bilge pump product line