Required information (The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] Cane Company manufactures two products called Alpha and Beta that sell for $185 and $150, respectively. Each product uses only one type of raw material that costs $8 per pound. The company has the capacity to annually produce 119,000 units of each product. Its average cost per unit for each product at this level of activity are given below: Alpha $ 40 Beta $ 24 33 20 Direct materials Direct labor Variable manufacturing overhead Traceable fixed manufacturing overhead Variable selling expenses Common fixed expenses Total cost per unit 31 21 23 $ 174 $145 The company considers its traceable fixed manufacturing overhead to be avoidable, whereas its common fixed expenses are unavoidable and have been allocated to products based on sales dollars. 8. Assume that Cane normally produces and sells 73,000 Betas and 93,000 Alphas per year. If Cane discontinues the Beta product line, its sales representatives could increase sales of Alpha by 13,000 units. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of discontinuing the Beta product line? Required information (The following information applies to the questions displayed below.) Cane Company manufactures two products called Alpha and Beta that sell for $185 and $150, respectively. Each product uses only one type of raw material that costs $8 per pound. The company has the capacity to annually produce 119,000 units of each product. Its average cost per unit for each product at this level of activity are given below: Alpha $ 40 33 20 28 25 Beta $ 24 28 18 Direct materials Direct labor Variable manufacturing overhead Traceable fixed manufacturing overhead Variable selling expenses Common fixed expenses Total cost per unit 31 28 23 $ 145 $174 The company considers its traceable fixed manufacturing overhead to be avoidable, whereas its common fixed expenses are unavoidable and have been allocated to products based on sales dollars. 9. Assume that Cane expects to produce and sell 93,000 Alphas during the current year. A supplier has offered to manufacture and deliver 93,000 Alphas to Cane for a price of $132 per unit. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of buying 93,000 units from the supplier instead of making those units? Required information [The following information applies to the questions displayed below.) Cane Company manufactures two products called Alpha and Beta that sell for $185 and $150, respectively. Each product uses only one type of raw material that costs $8 per pound. The company has the capacity to annually produce 119,000 units of each product. Its average cost per unit for each product at this level of activity are given below: Alpha $ 40 Beta $ 24 33 28 20 Direct materials Direct labor Variable manufacturing overhead Traceable fixed manufacturing overhead Variable selling expenses Common fixed expenses Total cost per unit INN cou NNW WPP00 $174 $ 145 The company considers its traceable fixed manufacturing overhead to be avoidable, whereas its common fixed expenses are unavoidable and have been allocated to products based on sales dollars. 10. Assume that Cane expects to produce and sell 68,000 Alphas during the current year. A supplier has offered to manufacture and deliver 68,000 Alphas to Cane for a price of $132 per unit. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of buying 68,000 units from the supplier instead of making those units? Required information (The following information applies to the questions displayed below.) Cane Company manufactures two products called Alpha and Beta that sell for $185 and $150, respectively. Each product uses only one type of raw material that costs $8 per pound. The company has the capacity to annually produce 119,000 units of each product. Its average cost per unit for each product at this level of activity are given below: Alpha $ 40 Beta $ 24 oo 00 Direct materials Direct labor Variable manufacturing overhead Traceable fixed manufacturing overhead Variable selling expenses Common fixed expenses Total cost per unit 00 w P The company considers its traceable fixed manufacturing overhead to be avoidable, whereas its common fixed expenses are unavoidable and have been allocated to products based on sales dollars. 11. How many pounds of raw material are needed to make one unit of each of the two products? Alpha Beta Pounds of raw materials per unit