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Munoz Company makes and sells lawn mowers for which it currently makes the engines. It has an opportunity to purchase the engines from a reliable manufacturer. The annual costs of making the engines are shown here.
Cost of materials (14,400 Units × $18) $ 259,200
Labor (14,400 Units × $29) 417,600
Depreciation on manufacturing equipment* 40,000
Salary of supervisor of engine production 67,000
Rental cost of equipment used to make engines 16,000
Allocated portion of corporatelevel facilitysustaining costs 81,000
Total cost to make 14,400 engines $ 880,800
*The equipment has a book value of $99,000 but its market value is zero.
Required
a. Determine the maximum price per unit that Munoz would be willing to pay for the engines.
b. Determine the maximum price per unit that Munoz would be willing to pay for the engines, if production increased to 18,600 units?
(For all requirements, round your intermediate calculations and final answers to 2 decimal places.)
Part a
Maximum price that could be paid would be sum of material + labor + salary for supervisor + rent divided by number of units = 259200+417600+67000+16000 = $ 759800/14400 = $ 52.76
Part b
Particulars | Amount ($) |
Material (18600*18) | 334800 |
Labor (18600*29) | 539400 |
Salary | 67000 |
Rent | 16000 |
Total | 957200 |
Number of units | 18600 |
Price per unit | $ 51.46 |