San Jose Company operates a Manufacturing Division and an Assembly Division. Both divisions are evaluated as profit

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San Jose Company operates a Manufacturing Division and an Assembly Division. Both divisions are evaluated as profit centers. Assembly buys components from Manufacturing and assembles them for sale. Manufacturing sells many components to third parties in addition to Assembly. Selected data from the two operations follow:
San Jose Company operates a Manufacturing Division and an Assembly

a For Manufacturing, this is the price to third parties.
b For Marketing this does not include the transfer price paid to Manufacturing.
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a. Current production levels in Manufacturing are 200,000 units. Assembly requests an additional 40,000 units to produce a special order. What transfer price would you recommend?
Why?
b. Suppose Manufacturing is operating at full capacity. What transfer price would you recommend? Why?
c. Suppose Manufacturing is operating at 380,000 units. What transfer price would you recommend? Why?

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Fundamentals of Cost Accounting

ISBN: 978-1259565403

5th edition

Authors: William Lanen, Shannon Anderson, Michael Maher

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