Busy-Bee Baking Company produces a variety of breads. The plant manager would like to expand production into sweet rolls as well. The average price of a loaf of bread is $1. Anticipated price for a package of sweet rolls is $1.50. Costs for the new level of production are as follows:

Cost Driver	Unit Variable Cost	Level of Cost Driver
Loaf of bread	$0.65	—
Package of sweet rolls	$0.93	—
Setups	$300	250
Maintenance hours	$15	3,500

Other data:
Total fixed costs (traditional)	$185,000
Total fixed costs (ABC)	57,500

Busy-Bee believes it can sell 600,000 loaves of bread and 200,000 packages of sweet rolls in the coming year.

Required:

1. Prepare a contribution-margin-based income statement for next year. Be sure to show sales and variable costs by product and in total.

Busy-Bee Baking Company
Contribution-Margin-Based Income Statement
	Bread	Sweet Rolls	Total
	$	$	$
	$	$	$
			$

2. Compute the break-even sales for the company as a whole using conventional analysis. Round your answer to the nearest dollar.
$

3. Compute the break-even sales for the company as a whole using activity-based analysis. Round your answer to the nearest dollar.
$

4. Compute the break-even units of each product in units. In your computations, round amounts to the nearest cent. Round your final answers to the nearest whole number of units.

Break-even loaves of bread
Break-even packages of sweet rolls

Does it matter whether you use conventional analysis or activity-based analysis?

5. Suppose that Busy-Bee could reduce the setup cost by $100 per setup and could reduce the number of maintenance hours needed to 1,000. How many units of each product must be sold to break even in this case? Round your answer up to the next higher whole unit (for example, 50.3 units rounds to 51). In your computations, round amounts to three decimal places.

Break-even loaves of bread
Break-even packages of sweet rolls

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