Question

Andretti Company has a single product called a Dak. The company normally produces and sells 85,000 Daks each year at a selling price of $64 per unit. The company’s unit costs at this level of activity are given below:

Direct materials	$	7.50
Direct labor		11.00
Variable manufacturing overhead		3.50
Fixed manufacturing overhead		6.00	($510,000 total)
Variable selling expenses		1.70
Fixed selling expenses		3.00	($255,000 total)
Total cost per unit	$	32.70

A number of questions relating to the production and sale of Daks follow. Each question is independent.

Required:

1-a. Assume that Andretti Company has sufficient capacity to produce 119,000 Daks each year without any increase in fixed manufacturing overhead costs. The company could increase its unit sales by 40% above the present 85,000 units each year if it were willing to increase the fixed selling expenses by $110,000. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of investing an additional $110,000 in fixed selling expenses?

1-b. Would the additional investment be justified?

2. Assume again that Andretti Company has sufficient capacity to produce 119,000 Daks each year. A customer in a foreign market wants to purchase 34,000 Daks. If Andretti accepts this order it would have to pay import duties on the Daks of $3.70 per unit and an additional $30,600 for permits and licenses. The only selling costs that would be associated with the order would be $1.50 per unit shipping cost. What is the break-even price per unit on this order?

3. The company has 600 Daks on hand that have some irregularities and are therefore considered to be "seconds." Due to the irregularities, it will be impossible to sell these units at the normal price through regular distribution channels. What is the unit cost figure that is relevant for setting a minimum selling price?

4. Due to a strike in its supplier’s plant, Andretti Company is unable to purchase more material for the production of Daks. The strike is expected to last for two months. Andretti Company has enough material on hand to operate at 25% of normal levels for the two-month period. As an alternative, Andretti could close its plant down entirely for the two months. If the plant were closed, fixed manufacturing overhead costs would continue at 30% of their normal level during the two-month period and the fixed selling expenses would be reduced by 20% during the two-month period.

a. How much total contribution margin will Andretti forgo if it closes the plant for two months?

b. How much total fixed cost will the company avoid if it closes the plant for two months?

c. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of closing the plant for the two-month period?

d. Should Andretti close the plant for two months?

5. An outside manufacturer has offered to produce 85,000 Daks and ship them directly to Andretti’s customers. If Andretti Company accepts this offer, the facilities that it uses to produce Daks would be idle; however, fixed manufacturing overhead costs would be reduced by 30%. Because the outside manufacturer would pay for all shipping costs, the variable selling expenses would be only two-thirds of their present amount. What is Andretti’s avoidable cost per unit that it should compare to the price quoted by the outside manufacturer?

Answer 1

1)a)

Particulars		85,000 units	119,000 units(40% increase)
Sale	$64	$5,440,000	$7,616,000
less:expenses
Direct Material	$7.50	$637,500	$892,500
Direct labour	$11.00	$935,000	$1,309,000
Variable Manufacturing Overheads	$3.50	$297,500	$416,500
fixed Manufacturing overheads	$6.00	$510,000	$510,000
Variable selling expenses	$1.70	$144,500	$202,300
Fixed Selling expenses	$3.00	$255,000	$365,000
Profit		$2,660,500	$3,920,700

b)even after additional 110,000 fixed selling expenses company is earning profit of $3,920,700 hence the move is justified

2) computation of breakeven price

Particulars	for 34,000 units
Direct Material	$7.50
Direct labour	$11.00
Variable Manufacturing Overheads	$3.50
Variable selling expenses(only associated with order)	$1.50
Fixed Selling expenses-import duties	$3.70
Permits & licenses($30,600/34000)	$0.90
Break even price	$28.10

3)Since the company has already produced 600 DAKS all manufacturing cost shall be sunk cost.Fixed selling expenses are also irrelevenat(i.e it is not avoidable), if the company wishes to sell these through normal distribution channel the only cost relevant is variable selling expenses of $1.70

4)

Particulars		3.542 units units(85000*25%*2/12 )	stop production for 2 months
Sale	$64	$226,688	0
less:expenses
Direct Material	$7.50	$26,565	0
Direct labour	$11.00	$38,962	0
Variable Manufacturing Overheads	$3.50	$12,397	0
Contribution Margin:		$148,764	$0
fixed Manufacturing overheads	$6.00	$85,000	$25,500
Cost Of Goods Sold		$63,764	($25,500)
Variable selling expenses	$1.70	$6,021
Fixed Selling expenses	$3.00	$42,500	$34,000
Profit		$15,243	(59,500)

If we choose to produce 25% of the normal volume, we will face a profit of 15,243.00
If we completely stop the production, the loss will be 59,500.00

Based on this we should choose the second option : producing 25% of the normal volume in order to limit the loss.

5)Total Avoidable cost:

Particulars	85,000 units
Direct Material	$7.50
Direct labour	$11.00
Variable Manufacturing Overheads	$3.50
Fixed Manufacturing Overheads($510000*70%)/85,000	$4.20
Variable selling Overheads(1.07*2/3)	$0.71
Avoidable cost per unit	$26.91