Silven Industries, which manufactures and sells a highly successful line of summer lotions and insect repellents, has decided to diversify in order to stabilize sales throughout the year. A natural area for the company to consider is the production of winter lotions and creams to prevent dry and chapped skin. Afler considerable research, a winter products line has been developed. However, Silven's president has decided to introduce only one of the new products for this coming winter. If the product is a success, further expansion in future years will be initiated The product selected (called Chap-Off) is a lip balm that will be sold in a lipstick-type tube. The product will be sold to wholesalers in boxes of 8 tubes for S7 20 per box Because of excess capacity, no additional fixed manufacturing overhead costs will be incurred to produce the product. However, a $80,000 charge for fixed manufacturing overhead will be absorbed by the product under the company's absorption costing system Using the estimated sales and production of 100,000 boxes of Chap-Off the Accounting Department has developed the following cost per box Direct materials Direct labor Manufacturing overhead Total cost $3.40 1.00 150 $5.90 The costs above include costs for producing both the lip balm and the tube that contains it. As an alterative to maling the tubes, Siven has approached a supplier to discuss the possibility of purchasing the tubes for Chap-Off The purchase price of the empty tubes from the supplier would be $1. 10 per box of 8 tubes, if Silven Industries accepts the purchase proposal, direct labor and variable manufacturing overhead costs per box of Chop-off would be reduced by 10% and direct materials costs would be reduced by 20% Required: 10 Calculate the total variable cost of producing one box of Chap Off (Do not round intermediate calculations, Round your answer to 2 decimal places) Total vasto cost per box Required: 1a. Calculate the total variable cost of producing one biox of Chap-off (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Totol variable cost per box 16. Assume that the tubes for the Chap-Off are purchased from the outside supplier, calculate the total variable cost of producing one box of Chap-Off (Do not round intermediate calculations, Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Total Variable cos per box 10. Should Siren Industries make or buy the tubes? Make Buy 2. What would be the maximum purchase price acceptable to Siven industries? (Do not found intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places) maximum purchase price per box of tubes 3. Instead of sales of 100,000 boxes, revised estimates show a sales volume of 122,000 boxes. At this new volume, additional equipment must be acquired to manufacture the tubes at an annual rental of $40,000. Assume that the outside supplier will not accept an order for less than 122,000 boxes. a. Calculate the total relevant cost of making 122,000 boxes and total relevant cost of buying 122,000 boxes. (Do not round intermediate calculations.) Making Buying Total cost b. Based on the above calculations, should Silven Industries make or buy the boxes? Make Buy 4. Reter to the data in (3) above. Assume that the outside supplier will accept an order of any size for the tubes at $1.10 per box Which of these is the best alternative? Make all 122,000 boxes Buy all 122,000 boxos Make 100,000 boxes and buy 22,000 boxes Make 40,000 boxes and buy 40,000 boxes
