Chapter 25: 5RQ (page 1406)
When is nonfinancial information relevant?
The non-financial information is considered relevant when managers are required to makequalitative decisionsassociated with the business.
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Snow Ride manufactures snowboards. Its cost of making 1,900 bindings is as follows:
Direct materials \(17,590
Direct labor 3,200
Variable overhead 2,080
Fixed overhead 6,300
Total manufacturing costs for 1,900 bindings \)29,170
Suppose Livingston will sell bindings to Snow Ride for \(13 each. Snow Ride would pay \)3 per unit to transport the bindings to its manufacturing plant, where it would add its own logo at a cost of \(0.50 per binding.
Requirements
1. Snow Ride’s accountants predict that purchasing the bindings from Livingston will enable the company to avoid \)2,100 of fixed overhead. Prepare an analysis to show whether Snow Ride should make or buy the bindings.
2. The facilities freed by purchasing bindings from Livingston can be used to manufacture another product that will contribute $3,100 to profit. Total fixed costs will be the same as if Snow Ride had produced the bindings. Show which alternative makes the best use of Snow Ride’s facilities: (a) make bindings, (b) buy bindings and leave facilities idle, or (c) buy bindings and make another product.
Cold Sports manufactures snowboards. Its cost of making 2,000 bindings is as follows:
Direct materials \(17,510
Direct labor 2,600
Variable overhead 2,060
Fixed overhead 7,000
Total manufacturing costs for 2,000 bindings \)29,170
Suppose Topnotch will sell bindings to Cold Sports for \(15 each. Cold Sports would pay \)3 per unit to transport the bindings to its manufacturing plant, where it would add its own logo at a cost of \(0.50 per binding.
Requirements
1. Cold Sports’s accountants predict that purchasing the bindings from Topnotch will enable the company to avoid \)2,300 of fixed overhead. Prepare an analysis to show whether Cold Sports should make or buy the bindings.
2. The facilities freed by purchasing bindings from Topnotch can be used to manufacture another product that will contribute $3,100 to profit. Total fixed costs will be the same as if Cold Sports had produced the bindings. Show which alternative makes the best use of Cold Sports’s facilities: (a) make bindings, (b) buy bindings and leave facilities idle, or (c) buy bindings and make another product.
Grimm Company makes decorative wedding cakes. The company is considering buying the cakes rather than baking them, which will allow it to concentrate on decorating. The company averages 100 wedding cakes per year and incurs the following costs from baking wedding cakes:
Direct materials \(500
Direct labor 1,000
Variable manufacturing overhead 200
Fixed manufacturing overhead 1,200
Total manufacturing cost \)2,900
Number of cakes ÷ 100
Cost per cake \(29
Fixed costs are primarily the depreciation on kitchen equipment such as ovens and mixers. Grimm expects to retain the equipment. Grimm can buy the cakes for \)25.
What is cost-plus pricing? Who uses it?
McCollum Company manufactures two products. Both products have the same sales price, and the volume of sales is equivalent. However, due to the difference in production processes, Product A has higher variable costs and Product B has higher fixed costs. Management is considering dropping Product B because that product line has an operating loss.
MCCOLLUM COMPANY
Income Statement
Month Ended June 30, 2018
Total Product A Product B
Net Sales Revenue \(150,000 \)75,000 \(75,000
Variable Costs 90,000 55,000 35,000
Contribution Margin 60,000 20,000 40,000
Fixed Costs 50,000 5,000 45,000
Operating Income/(Loss) \)10,000 \(15,000 \)(5,000)
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