Kantrovitz Company is a manufacturer of industrial components. One of its products that is used as a

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Kantrovitz Company is a manufacturer of industrial components. One of its products that is used as a subcomponent in appliance manufacturing is AP110. This product has the following information per unit:

Selling price .............$150

Costs:

Direct material ............ $20

Direct labor ............. 15

Variable manufacturing overhead ..... 12

Fixed manufacturing overhead ...... 30

Shipping and handling .......... 3

Fixed selling and administrative ....... 10

Total per-unit cost ............................. $90

a. Kantrovitz has received a special, one-time order for 1,000 AP110 parts. Assuming Kantrovitz has excess capacity, what is the minimum price that is acceptable for beginning negotiations on this order?

b. Kantrovitz has 5,000 units of AP110 in inventory that have some defects. The units cannot be sold through regular channels without a significant price reduction. What per-unit cost figure is relevant for setting a minimum selling price on these units?

c. During the next year, sales of AP110 are expected to be 10,000 units. All of the costs will remain the same except that fixed manufacturing overhead will increase by 20 percent and direct material will increase by 10 percent. The selling price per unit for next year will be $160. Based on these data, what will be the total contribution margin generated by part AP110?

d. Refer to (a). Kantrovitz has received a special, one-time order for 1,000 AP110 parts. Assume that Kantrovitz is operating at full capacity, and that the contribution of the output would be displaced by the one-time special order. Using the original data, compute the minimum acceptable selling price for this order.


Contribution Margin
Contribution margin is an important element of cost volume profit analysis that managers carry out to assess the maximum number of units that are required to be at the breakeven point. Contribution margin is the profit before fixed cost and taxes...
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