Imperial Jewelers manufactures and sells a gold bracelet for $400.00. The company's accounting system says that the unit product cost for this bracelet is $265.00 as shown below: Direct materials Direct labor Manufacturing overhead Unit product cost $145 86 34 $265 The members of a wedding party have approached Imperial Jewelers about buying 12 of these gold bracelets for the discounted price of $360.00 each. The members of the wedding party would like special filigree applied to the bracelets that would require Imperial Jewelers to buy a special tool for $467 and that would increase the direct materials cost per bracelet by $11. The special tool would have no other use once the special order is completed. To analyze this special order opportunity, Imperial Jewelers has determined that most of its manufacturing overhead is fixed and unaffected by variations in how much jewelry is produced in any given period. However, $12.00 of the overhead is variable with respect to the number of bracelets produced. The company also believes that accepting this order would have no effect on its ability to produce and sell jewelry to other customers. Furthermore, the company could fulfill the wedding party's order using its existing manufacturing capacity Required: 1. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the special order from the wedding party? 2. Should the company accept the special order? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Required 1 Required 2 What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the special order from the wedding party? Financial advantage Exercise 11-6 Managing a constrained Resource (LO11-6) 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 upholstered chairs appears below: Selling price per unit Variable cost per unit Upholstery labor-hours per unit $ $ Recliner 2,264 $ 900 $ 7 hours Sofa Love Seat 1,985 $ 1,2ee 1,400 $ 900 13 hours 4 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 premium 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 $41 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? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Required 1 Required 2 Required 3 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 premium per hour should the company be willing to pay to keep the upholstery shop open after normal working hours? Maximum overtime premium per hour Exercise 11-13 Sell or Process Further Decision (LO11-7) Wexpro, Inc., produces several products from processing 1 ton of clypton, a rare mineral. Material and processing costs total $63,000 per ton, one-fourth of which is allocated to product X15. Eight thousand two hundred units of product X15 are produced from each ton of clypton. The units can either be sold at the split-off point for $16 each, or processed further at a total cost of $9,000 and then sold for $19 each Required: 1. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of further processing product X15? 2. Should product X15 be processed further or sold at the split-off point? 1. 2. Product X15 should be
