Problem 12-20 Sell or Process Further Decision (LO12-7) (Prepared from a situation suggested by Professor John W. Hardy) Lone Star Meat Packers is a major processor of beef and other meat products. The company has a large amount of T-bone steak on hand, and it is trying to decide whether to sell the T-bone steaks as they are initially cut or to process them further into filet mignon and the New York cut. If the T-bone steaks are sold as initially cut, the company figures that a 1-pound T-bone steak would yield the following profit: $ 2.30 Selling price ($2.30 per pound) Less joint costs incurred up to the split-off point where T-bone steak can be identified as a separate product Profit per pound 1.60 $ 0.70 If the company were to further process the T-bone steaks, then cutting one side of a T- bone steak provides the filet mignon and cutting the other side provides the New York cut. One 16-ounce T-bone steak cut in this way will yield one 6-ounce filet mignon and one 8-ounce New York cut; the remaining ounces are waste. It costs $0.12 to further process one T-bone steak into the filet mignon and New York cuts. The filet mignon can be sold for $3.60 per pound, and the New York cut can be sold for $3.80 per pound. Required: 1. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of further processing one T-bone steak into filet mignon and New York cut steaks? 2. Would you recommend that the T-bone steaks be sold as initially cut or processed further? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Required 1 Required 2 What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of further processing one T-bone steak into f steaks? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) per unit Problem 12-21 Dropping or Retaining a Flight [LO12-2] Profits have been decreasing for several years at Pegasus Airlines. In an effort to improve the company's performance, the company is thinking about dropping several flights that appear to be unprofitable: A typical income statement for one round-trip of one such flight (flight 482) is as follows: $16, 720 1,216 15,584 180.8% 7.3 92.75 Ticket revenue (190 seats 48% occupancy $22e ticket price) Variable expenses (516.00 per person) Contribution margin Flight expenses: Salaries, flight crew Flight promotion Depreciation of aircraft Fuel for aircraft Liability insurance Salaries, flight assistants Baggage loading and flight preparation Overnight costs for flight crew and assistants at destination Total flight expenses Net operating loss $ 1,800 800 1,55e 5,600 5,480 1,200 1,888 700 18,850 $(3,346) The following additional information is available about flight 482: a. Members of the flight crew are paid fixed annual salaries, whereas the flight assistants are paid based on the number of round trips they complete. b. One-third of the liability insurance is a special charge assessed against flight 482 because in the opinion of the insurance company, the destination of the flight is in a "high-risk" area. The remaining two-thirds would be unaffected by a decision to drop flight 482 c. The baggage loading and flight preparation expense is an allocation of ground crews salaries and depreciation of ground equipment. Dropping flight 482 would have no effect on the company's total baggage loading and flight preparation expenses. d. If flight 482 is dropped, Pegasus Airlines has no authorization at present to replace it with another flight e. Aircraft depreciation is due entirely to obsolescence Depreciation due to wear and tear is negligible 1. Dropping flight 482 would not allow Pegasus Airlines to reduce the number of aircrat in its fleet or the number of flight crew on its payroll. Required: What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of discontinuing flight 482? Problem 12-22 Special Order Decisions [LO12-4) Polaski Company manufactures and sells a single product called a Ret. Operating at capacity, the company can produce and sell 50,000 Rets per year. Costs associated with this level of production and sales are given below: Unit $ 15 8 3 Direct materials Direct labor Variable manufacturing overhead Fixed manufacturing overhead Variable selling expense Fixed selling expense Total cost Total $ 750,000 400,000 150,000 450,000 100,000 300,000 $ 2,150,000 2 6 $ 43 The Rets normally sell for $48 each. Fixed manufacturing overhead is $450,000 per year within the range of 42,000 through 50,000 Rets per year. Required: 1. Assume that due to a recession, Polaski Company expects to sell only 42,000 Rets through regular channels next year. A large retail chain has offered to purchase 8,000 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 8,000 units. This machine would cost $16,000. 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 42.000 Rets through regular channels next year. The U.S. Army would like to make a one-time-only purchase of 8,000 Rets. The Army would pay a fixed fee of $1.20 per Ret and it would reimburse Polaski Company for all costs of production (variable and fixed) associated with the units. 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 50,000 Rets through regular channels next year. Thus, accepting the U.S. Army's order would require giving up regular sales of 8,000 Rets. Given this new information, what is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the U.S. Army's special order