Polaski Company manufactures and sells a single product called a Ret. Operating at capacity, the company can produce and sell 46,000 Rets per year. Costs associated with this level of production and sales are given below: Direct materials Direct labor Variable manufacturing overhead Fixed manufacturing overhead Variable selling expense Fixed selling expense Total cost Unit $ 25 6 3 5 4 6 $ 49 Total $ 1,150,000 276,000 138,000 230,000 184,000 276,000 $ 2,254,000 The Rets normally sell for $54 each. Fixed manufacturing overhead is $230,000 per year within the range of 39,000 through 46,000 Rets per year. Required: 1. Assume that due to a recession, Polaski Company expects to sell only 39,000 Rets through regular channels next year. A large retail chain has offered to purchase 7,000 Rets if Polaski is willing to accept a 16% discount off the regular price. There would be no sales commissions on this order, thus, variable selling expenses would be slashed by 75%. However, Polaski Company would have to purchase a special machine to engrave the retail chain's name on the 7,000 units. This machine would cost $14,000. Polaski Company has no assurance that the retail chain will purchase additional units in the future. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the special order? (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.) 2. Refer to the original data. Assume again that Polaski Company expects to sell only 39,000 Rets through regular channels next year. The U.S. Army would like to make a one-time-only purchase of 7,000 Rets. The Army would reimburse Polaski for all of the variable and fixed production costs assigned to the units by the company's absorption costing system, plus it would pay an additional fee of $1.60 per unit. Because the army would pick up the Rets with its own trucks, there would be no variable selling expenses associated with this order. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the U.S. Army's special order? 3. Assume the same situation as described in (2) above, except that the company expects to sell 46,000 Rets through regular channels next year. Thus, accepting the U.S. Army's order would require giving up regular sales of 7,000 Rets. Given this new information, what is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the U.S. Army's special order? 1. 2 Chapter 13 - Homework Saved Exercise 13-10 (Algo) Make or Buy Decision (LO13-3] 6 Futura Company purchases the 67,000 starters that it installs in its standard line of farm tractors from a supplier for the price of $11.00 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 $11.90 as shown below: 1.25 points Total Skipped Direct materials Direct labor Supervision Depreciation Variable manufacturing overhead Rent Total product cost Per Unit $ 6.00 2.ee 1.80 1.10 0.50 0.50 $ 11.90 $ 120,600 $ 73,700 eBook $ 33,500 Print If Futura decides to make the starters, a supervisor would have to be hired (at a salary of $120,600) 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 $87,000 per period. Depreciation is due to obsolescence rather than wear and tear. References Required: What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of making the 67.000 starters instead of buying them from an outside supplier? Show All Items Financial advantage Financial (disadvantage)
