The Powell Corporation has the following account balances (in millions):

REQUIRED
1. How would the answer to the preceding problem be modified if you were asked for a schedule of cost of goods manufactured and sold instead of a schedule of cost of goods manufactured? Be specific.
2. Would the sales manager€™s salary (included in marketing, distribution, and customer-service costs) be accounted for differently if the Powell Corporation were a merchandising company instead of a manufacturing company? Describe how the wages of an assembler in the plant would be accounted for in this manufacturing company.
3. Plant supervisory salaries are usually regarded as indirect manufacturing costs. Under what conditions might some of these costs be regarded as direct manufacturing costs? Give an example.
4. Suppose that both the direct materials used and the plant amortization were related to the manufacture of 1 million units of product. What is the unit cost for the direct materials assigned to those units? What is the unit cost for plant building and equipment amortization? Assume that yearly plant amortization is computed on a straight-line basis.
5. Assume that the historical, actual cost behaviour patterns in requirement 4 persist€”that is, direct materials costs behave as a variable cost and amortization behaves as a fixed cost. Repeat the computations in requirement 4, assuming that the costs are being predicted for the manufacture of 1.2 million units of product. How would the total costs be affected?
6. As a management accountant, explain concisely to the president why the unit costs differed in requirements 4 and 5.

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For Specific Date Direct materials, January 1, 2013 Work in process, January 1, 2013 Finished goods, January 1, 2013 S15 10 70 For Year 2013 Purchases of direct materials Direct manufacturing labour Amortization-plant building S 390 120 and equipment Plant supervisory salaries Miscellaneous plant overhead 96 Direct materials, December 31, 2013 Work in process, December 31, 2013 Finished goods, December 31, 2013 20 42 1,140 evenues Marketing, distribution, and customer-service costs Plant supplies used Plant utilities Indirect manufacturing labour 288 12 36 60