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Management of Mittel Company would like to reduce the amount of time between when a customer places an order and when the order is shipped. For the first quarter of operations during the current year the following data were reported: Required: 1. Compute the throughput time. (Round your answer to 1 decimal place.) 2. Compute the manufacturing cycle efficiency (MCE) for the quarter. (Round your percentage answer to nearest whole percent.) 3. What percentage of the throughput time was spent in non-value-added activities? (Round your percentage answer to nearest whole percent.) 4. Compute the delivery cycle time. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 1 decimal place.) 5. If by using Lean Production all queue time during production is eliminated, what will be the new MCE? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your percentage answer to 1 decimal place.) Outdoor Luggage, Incorporated, makes high-end hard-sided luggage for sports equipment. Data concerning three of the company's most popular models appear below. 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? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. 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 ha: become the total available pounds of plastic pellets, how much contribution margin per pound of the constrained resource is earned by each product? (Round your final answers to 2 decimal places.) The Regal Cycle Company manufactures three types of bicycles-a dirt bike, a mountain bike, and a racing bike. Data on sales and expenses for the past quarter follow: *Allocated on the basis of sales dollars. Management is concerned about the continued losses shown by the racing bikes and wants a recommendation as to whether or not the line should be discontinued. The special equipment used to produce racing bikes has no resale value and does not wear out. Required: 1. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) per quarter of discontinuing the Racing Bikes? 2. Should the production and sale of racing bikes be discontinued? 3. Prepare a properly formatted segmented income statement that would be more useful to management in assessing the long-run profitability of the various product lines. Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) per quarter of discontinuing the Racing Bikes? The Regal Cycle Company manufactures three types of bicycles-a dirt bike, a mountain bike, and a racing bike. Data on sales and expenses for the past quarter follow: *Allocated on the basis of sales dollars. Management is concerned about the continued losses shown by the racing blkes and wants a recommendation as to whether or not the line should be discontinued. The speclal equipment used to produce racing bikes has no resale value and does not wear out. Required: 1. What is the financlal advantage (disadvantage) per quarter of discontinuing the Racing Blkes? 2. Should the production and sale of racing bikes be discontinued? 3. Prepare a properly formatted segmented Income statement that would be more useful to management in assessing the long-run profitability of the varlous product Ilnes. Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Prepare a properly formatted segmented income statement that would be more useful to management in assessing the long-run profitability of the various product lines. Troy Engines, Limited, manufactures a variety of engines for use in heavy equipment. The company has always produced all of the necessary parts for its engines, including all of the carburetors. An outside supplier has offered to sell one type of carburetor to Troy Engines, Limited, for a cost of $40 per unit. To evaluate this offer, Troy Engines, Limited, has gathered the following information relating to its own cost of producing the carburetor internally: Required: 1. Assuming the company has no alternative use for the facilities that are now being used to produce the carburetors, what would be the financial advantage (disadvantage) of buying 18,000 carburetors from the outside supplier? 2. Should the outside supplier's offer be accepted? 3. Suppose that if the carburetors were purchased, Troy Engines, Limited, could use the freed capacity to launch a new product. The segment margin of the new product would be $180,000 per year. Given this new assumption, what would be the financial advantage (disadvantage) of buying 18,000 carburetors from the outside supplier? 4. Given the new assumption in requirement 3 , should the outside supplier's offer be accepted? Answer is not complete. Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Assuming the company has no alternative use for the facilities that are now being used to produce the carburetors, what would be the financial advantage (disadvantage) of buying 18,000 carburetors from the outside supplier? Outdoor Luggage, Incorporated, makes high-end hard-sided luggage for sports equipment. Data concerning three of the company's most popular models appear below. 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? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. If we assume that the total time available on the plastic injection molding machine is the constraint in the production process, how much con margin per minute of the constrained resource is earned by each product? (Round your final answers to 2 decimal places.) Troy Engines, Limited, manufactures a variety of engines for use in heavy equipment. The company has always produced all of the necessary parts for its engines, including all of the carburetors. An outside supplier has offered to sell one type of carburetor to Troy Engines, Limited, for a cost of $40 per unit. To evaluate this offer, Troy Engines, Limited, has gathered the following information relating to its own cost of producing the carburetor internally: Required: 1. Assuming the company has no alternative use for the facilities that are now being used to produce the carburetors, what would be the financial advantage (disadvantage) of buying 18,000 carburetors from the outside supplier? 2. Should the outside supplier's offer be accepted? 3. Suppose that if the carburetors were purchased, Troy Engines, Limited, could use the freed capacity to launch a new product. The segment margin of the new product would be $180,000 per year. Given this new assumption, what would be the financial advantage (disadvantage) of buying 18,000 carburetors from the outside supplier? 4. Given the new assumption in requirement 3 , should the outside supplier's offer be accepted? Answer is not complete. Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Suppose that if the carburetors were purchased, Troy Engines, Limited, could use the freed capacity to launch a new product. The segment margin of the new product would be $180,000 per year. Given this new assumption, what would be the financial advantage (disadvantage) of buying 18,000 carburetors from the outside supplier