Managerial Accounting

1. Assume that Bringer of Rain Inc. treats all fringe benefits as part of manufacturing overhead. Compute Donaldson's total wages and fringe benefits for the week and indicate how much of his wages and fringe benefits for the week would be allocated to direct labour and how much would be allocated to manufacturing overhead.

Question 2:

The following costs relate to one months activity in Nutcracker Company:

Indirect materials	$300
Rent on factory building	500
Maintenance of equipment	50
Direct material used	1,200
Utilities on factory	250
Direct labour	1,500
Selling expense	500
Administrative expense	300
Work-in-process inventory, beginning	600
Work-in-process inventory, ending	800
Finished goods inventory, beginning,	500
Finished goods inventory, ending	250

Required:

1. Prepare a schedule of cost of goods manufactured in good form.

Question 3:

Suppose that you have been given a summer job as an intern at Electronic Waves, a company that manufactures portable two-way radio transceivers for radio enthusiasts. The company, which is privately owned, has approached a bank for a loan to help finance its tremendous growth. The bank requires financial statements before approving such a loan. You have been asked to help prepare the financial statements and were given the following list of costs.

Required:

1. Classify the following lists of costs as either product (inventoriable) costs or period (non-inventoriable) costs for purposes of preparing the financial statements for the bank.

	Product Cost (Inventoriable)	Period Cost
1) Depreciation on salespersons cars.
2) Salaries of personnel who work in the finished goods warehouse.
3) Rent on equipment used in the factory.
4) Lubricants used for machine maintenance.
5) Soap and paper towels used by factory workers at the end of a shift.
6) Factory supervisors salaries.
7) Heat, water, and power consumed in the factory.
8) Materials used for boxing company products for shipment overseas. (Units are not normallyboxed.)
9) Advertising costs.
10) Workers Compensation Insurance for factory employees.
11) Depreciation on chairs and tables in the factory lunchroom.
12) The cost of packaging the companys product.
13) The wages of the receptionist in the administrative offices.
14) Cost of leasing the corporate jet used by the companys executives.
15) The cost of renting rooms at a British Columbia resort for the annual sales conference.

Question 4:

Last month Mont Tremblant Biking, a mountain sporting goods retailer, had total sales of $3,200,000, selling expenses of $110,000, and administrative expenses of $470,000. The company had beginning merchandise inventory of $140,000, purchased additional merchandise inventory for $2,550,000, and had ending merchandise inventory of $180,000.

Required:

1. Prepare an income statement for the company for the month.

Question 5:

The Trump International Hotel & Tower is a five-star hotel located in downtown Toronto. The hotels operations vice president would like to replace the hotels legacy computer terminals at the registration desk with attractive state-of-the-art flat-panel displays. The new displays would take less space, consume less power than the old computer terminals, and provide additional security, since they can be viewed only from a restrictive angle. The new computer displays would not require any new wiring. However, the hotels chef believes the funds would be better spent on a new bulk freezer for the kitchen.

Required:

1. Classify each item as a differential cost, an opportunity cost, or a sunk cost in the decision to replace the old computer terminals with new flat-panel displays. If none of the categories apply for a particular item, select "None".

Item	Differential Cost	Opportunity Cost	Sunk Cost	None
Cost of the old computer terminals
Cost of existing registration desk wiring
Rent on the space occupied by the registration desk
Wages of registration desk personnel
Benefits from a new freezer
Costs of maintaining the old computer terminals
Cost of removing the old computer terminals
Cost of the new flat-panel displays