Question: CAN I PLEASE GET HELP WITH THESE TWO QUESTION. Joseph Hansen, president of Electronica, Inc., was concerned about the end-of-the-year marketing report that he had
CAN I PLEASE GET HELP WITH THESE TWO QUESTION.
Joseph Hansen, president of Electronica, Inc., was concerned about the end-of-the-year marketing report that he had just received. According to Kylee Hepworth, marketing manager, a price decrease for the coming year was again needed to maintain the company's annual sales volume of integrated circuit boards (CBs). This would make a bad situation worse. The current selling price of $27 per unit was producing a $3-per-unit profithalf the customary $6-per-unit profit. Foreign competitors keep reducing their prices. To match the latest reduction would reduce the price from $27 to $21. This would put the price below the cost to produce and sell it. How could the foreign firms sell for such a low price? Determined to find out if there were problems with the company's operations, Joseph decided to hire Carsen Hepworth, a well-known consultant and brother of Kylee, who specializes in methods of continuous improvement. Carsen indicated that he felt that an activity-based management system needed to be implemented. After three weeks, Carsen had identified the following activities and costs:
| Batch-level activities: | |
| Setting up equipment | 187,500 |
| Materials handling | 270,000 |
| Inspecting products | 183,000 |
| Product-sustaining activities: | |
| Engineering support | 180,000 |
| Handling customer complaints | 150,000 |
| Filling warranties | 255,000 |
| Storing goods | 120,000 |
| Expediting goods | 112,500 |
| Unit-level activities: | |
| Using materials | 750,000 |
| Using power | 72,000 |
| Manual insertion labora | 375,000 |
| Other direct labor | 225,000 |
| Total costs | $2,880,000b |
Assume that Carsen suggested that kaizen costing be used to help reduce costs. The first suggested kaizen initiative is described by the following: switching to automated insertion would save $90,000 of engineering support and $135,000 of direct labor. Now, what is the total potential cost reduction per unit available? If required, round your answer to the nearest cent.
Calculate income based on current sales, prices, and costs.
| Sales | $fill in the blank 13 per unit |
| Costs | fill in the blank 14 per unit |
| Income | $fill in the blank 15 per unit |
Now, calculate the income using a $21 price and an $18 price, assuming that the maximum cost reduction possible is achieved (including Requirement 4's kaizen reduction).
| Income | |
| $21 price | $fill in the blank 16 per unit |
| $18 price | $fill in the blank 17 per unit |
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