McNulty, Inc., produces desks and chairs. A new CFO has just been hired and announces a new policy that if a product cannot earn a margin of at least 20 percent, it will be dropped. The margin is computed as product gross profit divided by reported product cost. Manufacturing overhead for year 1 totaled $855,000. Overhead is allocated to products based on direct labor cost. Data for year 1 show the following. Sales revenue Direct materials Direct labor Chairs $1,062,600 Desks $2,562,500 599,000 130,000 950,000 440,000 Required: a-1. Based on the CFO's new policy, calculate the profit margin for both chairs and desks. a-2. Which of the two products should be dropped? b. Regardless of your answer in requirement (a), the CFO decides at the beginning of year 2 to drop the chair product. The company cost analyst estimates that overhead without the chair line will be $800,000. The revenue and costs for desks are expected to be the same as last year. What is the estimated margin for desks in year 2? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Req A1 Req A2 Req B Based on the CFO's new policy, calculate the profit margin for both chairs and desks. Profit Margin Chairs Desks % % Req A1 Req A2 > McNulty, Inc., produces desks and chairs. A new CFO has just been hired and announces a new policy that if a product cannot earn a margin of at least 20 percent, it will be dropped. The margin is computed as product gross profit divided by reported product cost. Manufacturing overhead for year 1 totaled $855,000. Overhead is allocated to products based on direct labor cost. Data for year 1 show the following. Sales revenue Direct materials Direct labor Chairs $1,062,600 Desks $2,562,500 599,000 130,000 950,000 440,000 Required: a-1. Based on the CFO's new policy, calculate the profit margin for both chairs and desks. a-2. Which of the two products should be dropped? b. Regardless of your answer in requirement (a), the CFO decides at the beginning of year 2 to drop the chair product. The company cost analyst estimates that overhead without the chair line will be $800,000. The revenue and costs for desks are expected to be the same as last year. What is the estimated margin for desks in year 2? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Req A1 Req A2 Req B Which of the two products should be dropped? OChairs Desks < Req A1 Req B > McNulty, Inc., produces desks and chairs. A new CFO has just been hired and announces a new policy that if a product cannot earn a margin of at least 20 percent, it will be dropped. The margin is computed as product gross profit divided by reported product cost. Manufacturing overhead for year 1 totaled $855,000. Overhead is allocated to products based on direct labor cost. Data for year 1 show the following. Sales revenue Direct materials Direct labor Chairs $1,062,600 599,000 130,000 Desks $2,562,500 950,000 440,000 Required: a-1. Based on the CFO's new policy, calculate the profit margin for both chairs and desks. a-2. Which of the two products should be dropped? b. Regardless of your answer in requirement (a), the CFO decides at the beginning of year 2 to drop the chair product. The company cost analyst estimates that overhead without the chair line will be $800,000. The revenue and costs for desks are expected to be the same as last year. What is the estimated margin for desks in year 2? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Req A1 Req A2 Req B Regardless of your answer in requirement (a), the CFO decides at the beginning of year 2 to drop the chair product. The company cost analyst estimates that overhead without the chair line will be $800,000. The revenue and costs for desks are expected to be the same as last year. What is the estimated margin for desks in year 2? (Enter your answer as a percentage rounded to 1 decimal place (i.e., 32.1).) Estimated margin for desks - Year 2 % < Req A2 Req B > Show less