Question 3 (25 marks) (a) Winky Ltd has three separate production departments - cutting, sewing, and packaging and two service departments - canteen and maintenance. The canteen department and maintenance department provide services to the three production departments. The following tables show the planned operating costs and expected levels of activity for the year 2020: Service Departments Canteen Maintenance '000 *000 Production Departments Cutting Sewing Packaging "000 000 "000 Departmental activity measures: Direct labour hours 100 2,000 1,000 Machine hours 870 130 200 800 125 Departmental overheads ($): Variable overheads Fixed overheads 7,000 17,155 12,000 7,845 21,500 7,900 12,600 10,000 4,000 2,000 Use of service departments: Canteen - estimated usage in direct labour hours Maintenance-estimated usage in machine hours 400 200 120 80 60 30 30 5 Question 3 - Continued (b) Apple Ltd is going to launch a new product. The following information is the estimates for the forthcoming financial year. Sales Direct materials Direct labour Factory overheads - variable - fixed Administrative and selling costs fixed $ 700,000 140,000 105,000 35,000 80,000 160,000 The planned production capacity is 70,000 units (50% of total production capacity). It is assumed that the company sells all the products. Required: (i) Calculate the breakeven point in sales dollars. (2 marks) (2 marks) (ii) Calculate the margin of safety in units at the planned level of production. (iii) Determine the net profit under the planned level of production capacity. (2 marks) (iv) The marketing manager has suggested that an increase in advertising expense of $399,700 and a sales commission of 10% of selling price would bring sales volume up to 100% of the production capacity. Calculate the new selling price per unit if total profit is to remain the same. (4 marks)