In: Accounting
The Dorilane Company produces a set of wood patio furniture consisting of a table and four chairs. The company has enough customer demand to justify producing its full capacity of 2,000 sets per year. Annual cost data at full capacity follow:
Required:
1. Prepare an answer sheet with the column headings shown below. Enter each cost item on your answer sheet, placing the dollar amount under the appropriate headings. As examples, this has been done already for the first two items in the list above. Note that each cost item is classified in two ways: first, as variable or fixed with respect to the number of units produced and sold; and second, as a selling and administrative cost or a product cost. (If the item is a product cost, it should also be classified as either direct or indirect as shown.)
2. Total the dollar amounts in each of the columns in (1) above. Compute the average product cost of one patio set.
3. Assume that production drops to only 1,000 sets annually. Would you expect the average product cost per set to increase, decrease, or remain unchanged? Explain. No computations are necessary.
4. Refer to the original data. The president’s brother-in-law has considered making himself a patio set and has priced the necessary materials at a building supply store. The brother-in-law has asked the president if he could purchase a patio set from the Dorilane Company “at cost,” and the president agreed to let him do so.
a. Would you expect any disagreement between the two men over the price the brotherin-law should pay? Explain. What price does the president probably have in mind? The brother-in-law?
b. Because the company is operating at full capacity, what cost term used in the chapter might be justification for the president to charge the full, regular price to the brother-inlaw and still be selling “at cost”
2. The average product cost for one patio set would be:
Direct ................................................. $212,000
Indirect .............................................. 94,000
Total .................................................. $306,000
*$306,000 ÷ 2,000 sets = $153 per set
3. The average product cost per set would increase if the production drops. This is because the fixed costs would be spread over fewer units, causing the average cost per unit to rise.
4. a. Yes, the president may expect a minimum price of $153, which is the average cost to manufacture one set. He might expect a price even higher than this to cover a portion of the administrative costs as well. The brother-in-law probably is thinking of cost as including only direct materials, or, at most, direct materials and direct labor. Direct materials alone would be only $47 per set ($94,000 ÷ 2,000 = $47 per set), and direct materials and direct labor would be only $106 per set (($94,000 + $118,000) ÷ 2,000 = $106 per set).
b. The term is opportunity cost. The full, regular price of a set might be appropriate here, because the company is operating at full capacity, and this is the amount that must be given up (benefit forgone) to sell a set to the brother-in-law.
2. The average product cost for one patio set would be:
Direct ................................................. $212,000
Indirect .............................................. 94,000
Total .................................................. $306,000
*$306,000 ÷ 2,000 sets = $153 per set
3. The average product cost per set would increase if the production drops. This is because the fixed costs would be spread over fewer units, causing the average cost per unit to rise.
4. a. Yes, the president may expect a minimum price of $153, which is the average cost to manufacture one set. He might expect a price even higher than this to cover a portion of the administrative costs as well. The brother-in-law probably is thinking of cost as including only direct materials, or, at most, direct materials and direct labor. Direct materials alone would be only $47 per set ($94,000 ÷ 2,000 = $47 per set), and direct materials and direct labor would be only $106 per set (($94,000 + $118,000) ÷ 2,000 = $106 per set).
b. The term is opportunity cost. The full, regular price of a set might be appropriate here, because the company is operating at full capacity, and this is the amount that must be given up (benefit forgone) to sell a set to the brother-in-law.