Outdoor Luggage, Incorporated, makes high-end hard-sided luggage for sports equipment. Data concerning three of the company's most popular models appear below. Selling price per unit Ski Coard $310 $ Golf Guard 330 Fishing Guard Variable cost per unit $150 $ 130 $275 $ 85 Plastic injection molding machine processing time required to produce one unit 8 minutes 15 minutes 5 minutes Pounds of plastic pellets per unit 7 pounds pounds 10 pounds Required: 1. If we assume that the total time available on the plastic injection molding machine is the constraint in the production process, how much contribution margin per minute of the constrained resource is earned by each product? 2. Which product offers the most profitable use of the plastic injection molding machine? 3. If we assume that a severe shortage of plastic pellets has required the company to cut back its production so much that its new constraint has become the total available pounds of plastic pellets, how much contribution margin per pound of the constrained resource is earned by each product? 4. Which product offers the most profitable use of the plastic pellets? 5. Which product has the largest contribution margin per unit? Delta Company produces a single product. The cost of producing and selling a single unit of this product at the company's normal activity level of 100,800 units per year is: Direct materials Direct labor Variable manufacturing overhead Fixed manufacturing overhead Variable selling and administrative expenses Fixed selling and administrative expenses $ 1.80 $ 4.00 $ 0.70 $ 4.65 $ 2.10 $ 3.00 The normal selling price is $21.00 per unit. The company's capacity is 118,800 units per year. An order has been received from a mail- order house for 1,500 units at a special price of $18.00 per unit. This order would not affect regular sales or the company's total fixed costs. Required: 1. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the special order? 2. As a separate matter from the special order, assume the company's inventory includes 1,000 units of this product that were produced last year and that are inferior to the current model. The units must be sold through regular channels at reduced prices. The company does not expect the selling of these inferior units to have any effect on the sales of its current model. What unit cost is relevant for establishing a minimum selling price for the inferior units? 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? Financial advantage Futura Company purchases the 69,000 starters that it installs in its standard line of farm tractors from a supplier for the price of $13.30 per unit. Due to a reduction in output, the company now has idle capacity that could be used to produce the starters rather than buying them from an outside supplier. However, the company's chief engineer is opposed to making the starters because the production cost per unit is $13.60 as shown below: Direct materials Direct labor Supervision Depreciation Variable manufacturing overhead Per Unit Total $ 6.00 3.50 1.60 $ 110,400 1.20 $82,800 0.80 0.50 $ 13.60 $ 34,500 Rent Total product cont If Futura decides to make the starters, a supervisor would have to be hired (at a salary of $110,400) to oversee production. However, the company has sufficient idle tools and machinery such that no new equipment would have to be purchased. The rent charge above is based on space utilized in the plant. The total rent on the plant is $89,000 per period. Depreciation is due to obsolescence rather than wear and tear. Required: What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of making the 69,000 starters instead of buying them from an outside supplier? Financial advantage