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total apples pies candy apples sales price (price unit) 20 7.50 expected sales (for september) 13000 5250 7750 expected manufacturing cost total apples pies candy
total | apples pies | candy apples | |
sales price (price unit) | 20 | 7.50 | |
expected sales (for september) | 13000 | 5250 | 7750 |
expected manufacturing cost | total | apples pies | candy apples |
fixed OH (per month) | 18750 | 16500 | 2250 |
Direct labor (per unit) | 3.50 | 1.90 | |
direct material (per unit) | 2.50 | 1.60 | |
variable Oh (per unit) | 1.50 | 0.70 | |
expected marketing and admin costs | |||
fixed costs (per month) | 5000 | 3750 | 1250 |
variable costs (per unit) | 1.25 | 0.25 |
Additionally Sally informed her that farm received a special oreder to sell their apple pies and caramel apples at the local fair in September. Sally wanted to sell 2000 pies and 3000 caramel apples for a discounted price of $17 and $5.50 respectively. With the amount of staff and size of the bakery, Nikki determined that the maximum capacity for the bakery is 2000 labor hours a month. At the current projected sale amounts she espects that thell need 1625 hours to meet their regular sales volume. After review of the salaries of all staff Nikki determined that the average hourly wage was $13. Ned was also concerned about how much it cost to keep apple pie inventory on hand at the end of the month caramel apples have to be sold within a couple days so no inventory is left at the end of the month.Since there is a limit shelf life for the apple pies,Ned and Sally try and keep the ending inventories low. They are hoping to have only 250 apple pies in progress at the end of the month and 35o finished pies. They think that the associated costs for these inventories will be $675 for the in progress pies and $3125 for the finished pies. They started production for September sale of apple pies at the end of August. At the end of August there were 500 pies that were 50% completed in progress and no finished pies. The variable cost associated with these inventories were as follow
DM | DL | |
Begining WIP inventory(50% completed as to labor) | 1125 | 1300 |
September costs | 17750 | 18200 |
And the conversion cost for the in progree pies 50% and 75% of direct labor is applied to overhead. (Use the expected for September apple pies sales for determining units started and units completed and transferred out.September was a success for the bakery.They were able to complete the specialn order and with some overtime baked a few more pies.Here were the results for the actual sales and costs at the month.
total | apples pies | candy apples | |
Actual sales price(per unit) | $22.50 | $7.00 | |
actual sales | 17750 | 7250 | 10500 |
actual variable manufacturing OH | 81625 | ||
actual variable marketing and admin cost | 15125 | ||
actual fixed manufacturing costs | 16750 | ||
actual marketing and admin costs | 5250 |
A) Labor hours required for special order
Product | labor cost per unit | wage rate per hour | labor hours per unit | special order quantity | total hours required |
apples pies | |||||
caramelapples |
B)Incremental profit(loss) on special order
Differential revenues | apples pies | caramel apple | total |
special order units | |||
selling price | |||
incremental revenue | |||
Differential cost | |||
special oreder units | |||
total variable costs | |||
differential cost | |||
Differential profit(loss) |
If labor hours for the additional 5000 units combined then regular production will need to be reduced for the product with the lowes contribution margin
Bakery capacity(in direct-labor hours) | |
Capacity used for special order | |
Capacity available for regular orders |
C)Compute contribution margin per hours for regular order
apple pies | caramel apples | |
Revenue per unit | ||
variable cost per unit | ||
contribution margin per unit | ||
direct-labor hours per unit | ||
contribution margin per hour |
D)Compute contribution argin lost from regular sales
Lowest contribution margin per hour | |
Hours over capacity | |
total lost contribution margin |
E)Total contribution margin with special order
Special order | apple pies | caramel apple | total |
CM per unit | |||
Number of units | |||
Special order CM | |||
Regular production | |||
CM per unit | |||
number of units | |||
regular production CM | |||
total contribution margin |
Regular production contribution margin | |
Difference in profit with special order |
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