In: Accounting
At the end of the year, a company offered to buy 4,520 units of
a product from X Company for a special price of $12.00 each instead
of the company's regular price of $17.00 each. The following
information relates to the 66,200 units of the product that X
Company made and sold to its regular customers during the
year:
Per-Unit | Total | ||
Cost of goods sold | $8.63 | $571,306 | |
Period costs | 2.28 | 150,936 | |
Total | $10.91 | $722,242 |
Fixed cost of goods sold for the year were $141,668, and fixed
period costs were $69,510. Variable period costs include selling
commissions equal to 2% of revenue.
6. Profit on the special order is
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7. Assume the following two changes for the special order: 1)
variable cost of goods sold will decrease by $0.84 per unit, and 2)
there will be no selling commissions. What would be the effect of
these two changes on the special order profit?
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8. There is concern that regular customers will find out about the
special order, and X Company's regular sales will fall by 600
units. As a result of these lost sales, X Company's profits would
fall by