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Birch Company normally produces and sells 30,000 units of RG-6 each month. The selling price is $22 per unit, variable costs are $14 per unit, fixed manufacturing overhead costs total $150,000 per month, and fixed selling costs total $30,000 per month. Employment-contract strikes in the companies that purchase the bulk of the RG-6 units have caused Birch Company's sales to temporarily drop to only 8,000 units per month. Birch Company estimates that the strikes will last for two months, after which time sales of RG-6 should return to normal. Due to the current low level of sales, Birch Company is thinking about closing down its own plant during the strike, which would reduce its fixed manufacturing overhead costs by $45,000 per month and its fixed selling costs by 10%. Start-up costs at the end of the shutdown period would total $8,000. Because Birch Company uses Lean Production methods, no inventories are on hand. Required: 1. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) if Birch closes its own plant for two months? 2. Should Birch close the plant for two months? 3. At what level of unit sales for the two-month period would Birch Company be indifferent between closing the plant or keeping it open? Required: 1. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) if Birch closes its own plant for two months? 2. Should Birch close the plant for two months? 3. At what level of unit sales for the two-month period would Birch Company be indifferent between closing the plant or keeping it open? Required 1: What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) if Birch closes its own plant for two months? Can I hand type in 2? \begin{tabular}{|l|l|} \hline Financial Disadvantage & $(40,000.00) \\ \hline \end{tabular} Required 2: Should Birch close the plant for two months? \begin{tabular}{|l|l|} \hline Yes or No & NO \\ \hline \end{tabular} The company should not close down the plant for two months it would earn $40,000 contribution margin rather than close down of plant. Required 3: At what level of unit sales for the two-month period would Birch Company be indifferent between closing the plant or keeping it open? \begin{tabular}{|l|lr|} \hline Saving in Fixed Cost & $ & 88,000.00 \\ \hline Contribution per Unit & $ & 8.00 \\ \hline Unit Sales required for Birch to be indifferent & $ & 11,000.00 \\ \hline \end{tabular} Therefore, at 11,000 units production level ( 5,500 units per month) both options would be equally benefited

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