1. A company is considering a special order for 1,000 units to be priced at $8.90 (the...

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1. A company is considering a special order for 1,000 units to be priced at $8.90 (the normal price would be $11.50). The order would require specialized materials costing $4.00 per unit. Direct labor and variable factory overhead would cost $2.15 per unit. Fixed factory overhead is $1.20 per unit. However, the company has excess capacity, and acceptance of the order would not raise total fixed factory overhead. The warehouse, however, would have to add capacity costing $1,300. Which of the following is relevant to the special order?

a. $11.50

b. $1.20

c. $7.35

d. $8.90

2. Walloon Company produced 150 defective units last month at a unit manufacturing cost of $30. The defective units were discovered before leaving the plant. Walloon can sell them “as is” for $20 or can rework them at a cost of $15 and sell them at the regular price of $50. What is the total relevant cost of reworking the defective units?

a. $2,250

b. $3,000

c. $4,500

d. $6,750

3. Pasha Company produced 50 defective units last month at a unit manufacturing cost of $30. The defective units were discovered before leaving the plant. Pasha can sell them “as is” for $20 or can rework them at a cost of $15 and sell them at the regular price of $50. Which of the following is not relevant to the sell-or-rework decision?

a. $30

b. $20

c. $15

d. $50

4. Future costs that differ across alternatives are:

a. Opportunity costs

b. Sunk costs

c. Relevant costs

d. Variable costs

5. Thaler Company bought $26,000 of raw materials a year ago in anticipation of producing 5,000 units of a deluxe version of its product to be priced at $75 each. Now the price of the deluxe version has dropped to $35 each, and Thaler is now deciding whether to produce 1,500 units of the deluxe version at a cost of $48,000 or to scrap the project. What is the opportunity cost of this decision?

a. $175,000

b. $375,000

c. $48,000

d. $26,000

Opportunity Cost
Opportunity cost is the profit lost when one alternative is selected over another. The Opportunity Cost refers to the expected returns from the second best alternative use of resources that are foregone due to the scarcity of resources such as land,...
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Cornerstones of Cost Management

ISBN: 978-1305970663

4th edition

Authors: Don R. Hansen, Maryanne M. Mowen

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