The Regal Cycle Company manufactures three types of bicycles-a dirt bike, a mountain bike, and a racing bike. Data on sales and expenses for the past quarter follow; "Allocated on the basis of sales dollars. Management is concerned about the continued losses shown by the racing bikes and wants a recommendation as to whether or no the line should be discontinued. The special equipment used to produce racing bikes has no resale value and does not wear out. Required: 1. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) per quarter of discontinuing the Racing Bikgs? 2. Should the production and sale of racing bikes be discontinued? 3. Prepare a properly formatted segmented income statement that would be more useful to management in assessing the long-run profitability of the various product lines. Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) per quarter of discontinuing the Racing Bikes? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Prepare a properly formatted segmented income statement that would be more useful to management in assessing the long profitability of the various product lines. Troy Engines, Limited, manufactures a variety of engines for use in heavy equipment. The company has always produced all of the necessary parts for its engines, including all of the carburetors. An outside supplier has offered to sell one type of carburetor to Troy Engines, Limited, for a cost of $32 per unit. To evaluate this offer, Troy Engines, Limited, has gathered the following information relating to its own cost of producing the carburetor internally: Required: 1. Assuming the company has no alternative use for the facilities that are now being used to produce the carburetors, what would be the financial advantage (disadvantage) of buying 17,000 carburetors from the outside supplier? 2. Should the outside supplier's offer be accepted? 3. Suppose that if the carburetors were purchased, Troy Engines, Limited, could use the freed capacity to lounch a new product. The segment margin of the new product would be $170,000 per year. Given this new assumption, what would be the financial advantage (disadvantage) of buying 17,000 carburetors from the outside supplier? 4. Given the new ossumption in requirement 3, should the outside supplier's offer be accepted? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Assuming the company has no alternative use for the faclities that are now being used to produce the carburetors, what: would be the financial advantage (disadvantage) of buying 17,000 carburetors from the outside supplier? Imperial Jewelers manufactures and sells a gold bracelet for $40100. The company's accounting system says that the unit product cost for this bracelet is $26100 as shown belowr The members of a wedding party have approached imperial Jewelers about buying 16 of these gold bracelets for the discounted price of $361.00 each. The members of the wedding party would like special filigree applied to the bracelets that would inerease the direct materials cost per bracelet by $7. Imperial Jewelers would also have to buy a special tool for $461 to apply the fillgree to the bracelets. The special tool would have no other use once the special order is completed. To analyze this special order opportunity, Imperial Jewelers has determined that most of its manufacturing overhead is fixed and unaffected by variations in how much jewelry is produced in any given period. However, $8.00 of the overhead is variable with respect to the number of bracelets produced. The company also believes that accepting this order would have no effect on its ability to produce and sell jewelry to other customers. Furthermore, the company could fulfilil the wedding party's order using its existing manufacturing capacity. Required: 1. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the special order from the wedding party? 2. Should the company accept the special order? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the special order from the wedding party? Portsmouth Company makes upholstered furniture. Its only variable cost is direct materials. The demand for the company's products far exceeds its manufacturing capacity. The bottleneck (or constraint) in the production process is upholstery labor-hours. Information concerning three of Portsmouth's products appears below: Required: 1. Portsmouth is considering paying its upholstery laborers hourly compensation, in addition to their usual salaries, to work overtime. Assuming that this extra time would be used to produce sofas, up to how much of an overtime rate per hour should the company be willing to pay to keep the upholstery shop open after normal working hours? 2. A small nearby upholstering company has offered to upholster furniture for Portsmouth at a price of $41 per hour. The management of Portsmouth is confident that this upholstering company's work is high quality and their craftsmen can work as quickly as Portsmouth's own craftsmen on the simpler upholstering jobs such as the Love Seat. How much additional contribution margin per hour can Portsmouth earn if it hires the nearby upholstering company to make Love Seats? 3. Should Portsmouth hire the nearby upholstering company? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Portsmouth is considering paying its upholstery laborers hourly compensation, in addition to their usual salaries, to work overtime. Assuming that this extra time would be used to produce sofas, up to how much of an overtime rate per hour should the company be wiling to pay to keep the upholstery shop open ofter normal working hours? Dorsey Company manufactures three products from a common input in a joint processing operation. Joint processing costs up to the split-off point total $370,000 per quarter. For financial reporting purposes, the company allocates these costs to the joint products on the basis of their relative sales value at the split-off point. Unit selling prices and total output at the split-off point are as follows: Each product can be processed further after the split-off point. Additional processing requires no special facilities. The additional processing costs (per quarter) and unit selling prices after further processing are given below: Required: 1. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of further processing each of the three products beyond the split-off point? 2. Based on your analysis in requirement 1, which product or products should be sold at the split-off point and which product or products should be processed further? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of further processing each of the three products beyond the spit-off point? (Do not round your intermediate calculations. Enter "disadvantages" as a negative value.) Dorsey Company manufactures three products from a common input in a joint processing operation. Joint processing costs up t split-off point total $370,000 per quarter. For financial reporting purposes, the company allocates these costs to the joint product the basis of their relative sales value at the split-off point. Unit selling prices and total output at the split-off point are as follows: Each product can be processed further after the split-off point. Additional processing requires no special facilities. The additional processing costs (per quarter) and unit selling prices after further processing are given below: Required: 1. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of further processing each of the three products boyond the split-off point? 2. Based on your analysis in requirement 1, which product or products should be sold at the split-off point and which product or products should be processed further? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Based on your analysis in requirement 1 , which product or products should be sold at the split-off point and which product or products should be processed further? Barlow Company manufactures three products A,B, and C. The selling price, variable costs, and contribution margin for one unit of each product follow: The same raw material is used in all three products. Barlow Company has only 5,400 pounds of raw material on hand and will not be able to obtain any more of it for several weeks due to a strike in its supplier's plant. Management is trying to decide which product(s) to concentrate on next week in filling its backlog of orders. The material costs $6 per pound. Required: 1. Calculate the contribution margin per pound of the constraining resource for each product. 2. Assuming thot Barlow has unlimited demand for each of its three products, what is the maximum contribution margin the company can earn when using the 5,400 pounds of raw material on hand? 3. Assuming that Barlow's estmated customer demand is 600 units per product line, what is the maximum contribution margin the company can earn when using the 5,400 pounds of raw material on hand? 4. A foreign supplier could furnish Barlow with additional stocks of the row material at a substantial premium over the usual price. Assuming Barlow's estimated customer demand is 600 units per product line and that the company has used its 5,400 pounds of raw material in an optimal fashion, what is the highest price Barlow Company should be willing to pay for an additional pound of materials? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Calculate the contribution margin per pound of the constraining resource for each product