| 1. Logan Products, a small manufacturer, has submitted the items
below concerning last year's operations. The president's secretary,
trying to be helpful, has alphabetized the list. |
| Administrative salaries | $ 2,400 |
| Advertising expense | 1,200 |
| Depreciation -- factory building | 800 |
| Depreciation -- factory equipment | 1,600 |
| Depreciation -- office equipment | 180 |
| Direct labor cost | 21,900 |
| Raw materials inventory, beginning | 2,100 |
| Raw materials inventory, ending | 3,200 |
| Finished goods inventory, beginning | 46,980 |
| Finished goods inventory, ending | 44,410 |
| General liability insurance expense | 240 |
| Indirect labor cost | 11,800 |
| Insurance on factory | 1,400 |
| Purchases of raw materials | 14,600 |
| Repairs and maintenance of factory | 900 |
| Sales salaries | 2,000 |
| Taxes on factory | 450 |
| Travel and entertainment expense | 1,410 |
| Work in process inventory, beginning | 1,670 |
| Work in process inventory, ending | 1,110 |
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| Required: | |
| a.) Prepare a schedule of Cost of Goods Manufactured in good form for the year. |
| b.) Determine the Cost of Goods Sold for the year. |
| 2. Bakerston Company is a manufacturing firm that uses job-order costing. The company's inventory balances were as follows at the beginning and end of the year: |
| Beginning Balance | Ending Balance |
| Raw materials | $14,000 | $22,000 |
| Work in process | 27,000 | 9,000 |
| Finished goods | 62,000 | 77,000 |
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| The company applies overhead to jobs using a predetermined overhead rate based on machine-hours. At the beginning of the year, the company estimated that it would work 33,000 machine-hours and incur $231,000 in manufacturing overhead cost.
The following transactions were recorded for the year:
Raw materials were purchased, $315,000. Raw materials were requisitioned for used in production, $307,000 ($281,000 direct and $26,000 indirect).
The following employee costs were incurred:
direct labor, $377,000; indirect labor, $96,000; and administrative salaries, $172,000, Selling costs, $147,000, Factory utility costs, $10,000,
Depreciation for the year was $127,000 of which $120,000 is related to factory operations and $7,000 is related to selling and administrative activities.
Manufacturing overhead was applied to jobs. The actual level of activity for the year was 34,000 machine-hours.
Sales for the year totaled $1,253,000 .
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| Required: |
| a. Prepare a schedule of cost of goods manufactured in good form. |
| b. Was the overhead under- or overapplied? By how much? |
| c. Prepare an income statement for the year in good form. The company closes any under- or overapplied overhead to Cost of Goods Sold. |
| 3. ABC Company's total overhead costs at various levels of activity are presented below: |
| Month | Machine Hours | Total Overhead Costs |
| March | 60,000 | $216,800 |
| April | 50,000 | 194,000 |
| May | 70,000 | 239,600 |
| June | 80,000 | 262,400 |
| Assume that the overhead costs above consist of utilities, supervisory salaries, and maintenance. At the 50,000 machine-hour level of activity these costs are: |
| Utilities (V) | $ 54,000 |
| Supervisory salaries (F) | 62,000 |
| Maintenance (M) | 78,000 |
| Total overhead costs | $194,000 |
| V = Variable; F = Fixed; M = Mixed. |
| The company wants to break down the maintenance cost into its basic variable and fixed cost elements. |
| Required: |
| a.) Estimate the maintenance cost for June. |
| b.) Use the high-low method to estimate the cost formula for maintenance cost. |
| c.) Estimate the total overhead cost at an activity level of 55,000 machine hours. |
| 4. Belli-Pitt, Inc., produces a single product. The results of the company's operations for a typical month are summarized in contribution format as follows: |
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| Sales | $540,000 |
| Variable expenses | 360,000 |
| Contribution margin | 180,000 |
| Fixed expenses | 120,000 |
| Net income | $ 60,000 |
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| The company produced and sold 120,000 kilograms of product during the month. There were no beginning or ending inventories. |
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| Required: |
| a. Given the present situation, compute
1. The break-even sales in kilograms.
2. The break-even sales in dollars.
3. The sales in kilograms that would be required to produce net income of $90,000.
4. The margin of safety in dollars. |
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| b. An important part of processing is performed by a machine which is currently being leased for $20,000 per month. Belli-Pitt has been offered an arrangement whereby it would pay $0.10 royalty per kilogram processed by the machine rather than the monthly lease.
1. Should the company choose the lease or the royalty plan?
2. Under the royalty plan compute break-even point in kilograms.
3. Under the royalty plan compute break-even point in dollars.
4. Under the royalty plan determine the sales in kilograms that would be required to produce net income of $90,000. |
| 5. Tanner Company's most recent contribution format income statement is presented below: |
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| Sales | $75,000 |
| Less variable expenses | 45,000 |
| Contribution margin | 30,000 |
| Less fixed expenses | 36,000 |
| Net loss | $(6,000) |
| The company sells its only product for $15 per unit. There were no beginning or ending inventories. |
| Required: |
| a. Compute the company's break-even point in units sold. |
| b. Compute the total variable expenses at the break-even point. |
| c. How many units would have to be sold to earn a target profit of $9,000? |
| d. The sales manager is convinced that a $6,000 increase in the advertising budget would increase total sales by $25,000. Would you advise the increased advertising outlay? |
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