Louisville Jar Co. has processing plants in Kentucky and Pennsylvania. Both plants use recycled glass to produce jars that a variety of food processors use in food canning. The jars sell for $10 per hundred units. Budgeted revenues and costs for the year ending December 31,2014 , in thousands of dollars, are: Home office costs are fixed and are allocated to manufacturing plants on the basis of relative sales levels. Fixed regional promotional costs are discretionary advertising costs needed to obtain budgeted sales levels. Because of the budgeted operating loss, Louisville Jar Co. is considering ceasing operations at its Kentucky plant. If it does so, proceeds from the sale of plant assets will exceed asset book values and exactly cover all termination costs; fixed factory overhead costs of $25,000 would not be eliminated. Louisville Jar Co. is considering the following three alternative plans: PLAN A: Expand Kentucky's operations from its budgeted 11,000,000 units to a budgeted 17,000,000 units. It is believed that this can be accomplished by increasing Kentucky's fixed regional promotional expenditures by $120,000. PLAN B: Close the Kentucky plant and expand the Pennsylvania operations from the current budgeted 20,000,000 to 31,000,000 units to fill Kentucky's budgeted production of 11,000,000 units. The Kentucky region would continue to incur promotional costs to sell the 11,000,000 units. All sales and costs would be budgeted by the Pennsylvania plant. PLAN C: Close the Kentucky plant and enter into a long-term contract with a competitor to serve the Kentucky region's customers. This competitor would pay a royalty of $1.25 per 100 units sold to Louisville, which would continue to incur fixed regional promotional costs to maintain sales of 11,000,000 units in the Kentucky region. 1. CM/unit is $.025 (2.5 cents) per jar in the KY plant. At this level, you need to sell 16M jars to BE (warning - don't include allocated costs in fixed costs when using the BEP formula). 2. Plan A - You'll end up losing (166) at KY and (100) overall. Better than where you are now but not much better (warning - home office allocations that are made using sales revenue ratios change since the KY and PA sales revenues change). 3. Plan B - Using PA plant sales, VC%s,CM% relationships (those relationships are different in each plant - use PA relationships since there is no KY any longer), you produce 31M in that plant. You end up earning $277,500 (warning - $25,000 of the FOH at KY is not avoidable, the rest is; none of the home office cost is avoidable). 4. Plan C - Outsourcing the KY production, you earn $57,500 - not as much as Plan B. Same warning as in Plan B. Requirement 1: Compute the units to be sold in order to cover fixed factory overhead costs and fixed regional promotional costs (show calculations) in KY. PlanC KentuckyPennsylvaniaTotal Sales Royalty Revenue Variable costs: Direct material Direct labor Factory overhead Contribution margin Direct fixed costs: Overhead Promotion costs Allocated fixed costs Operating income (loss)