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HBSP Product Number TCG031 THE CRIMSON PRESS CURRICULUM CENTER THE CRIMSON GROUP, INC. Scarpe Italiane, S.p.A. Is this diversification move good or not? First you tell me that machine-made shoes are money makers, then you tell me we're losing a bundle on each pair. Which is it? The speaker was Francesca Nadalini, CEO of Scarpe Italianc, S.p.A. (SISPA). SISPA had been manufacturing shoes in Italy for several generations. Three years ago, Ms. Nadalini had completed her B.S. in Business Administration, and had been asked by her father, the company's president, to initiate SISPA's North American operations. She commented: We've grown a lot and done well in the past three years. Most of our shoes are hand made, using very little in the way of machines, and we charge a premium price for them. Recently. however, we decided to diver- sify so we could compete with the more automated manufacturers. We purchased some specialized equip- ment that we installed in our plant and that we use only for the machine-made shoes. We use very little la- bor to make these kinds of shoes. The problem now is that we don't seem to know how much it costs us to make either kind of shoe. It was easy when we produced only handmade shoes, but matters are now much more complicated. The problem seems to be with overhead allocation. at Fanshawe College until Apr 23, 2022 SISPA's overhead costs and some related information, are shown in Exhibit 1. Giovanni Hoff- man, SISPA's chief accountant, commented on the nature of the problem: When we produced only handmade shoes, we allocated all our manufacturing overhead [MOH] to them and there was no problem. Our MOH is relatively high, since receiving and handling the materials from each leather shipment takes a lot of time. Also, as part of receiving and handling, we cut and prepare much of