Question: Please show your work. TufStuff, Inc., sells a wide range of drums, bins, boxes, and other containers that are used in the chemical industry. One
TufStuff, Inc., sells a wide range of drums, bins, boxes, and other containers that are used in the chemical industry. One of the company's products is a heavy-duty corrosion-resistant metal drum, called the WVD drum, used to store toxic wastes Production is constrained by the capacity of an automated welding machine that is used to make precision welds. A total of 2,000 hours of welding time is available annually on the machine. Because each drum requires 0.8 hours of welding machine time, annual production is limited to 2,500 drums. At present, the welding machine is used exclusively to make the WVD drums. The accounting department has provided the following financial data concerning the WVD drums: WVD Drums 165.00 Management believes 3,000 WVD drums could be sold each year if the company had sufficient manufacturing capacity. As an alternative to adding another welding machine management has considered buying additional drums from an outside supplier. Harcor Industries, Inc., a supplier of quality products, would be able to provide up to 1,800 WWD-type drums per year at a price of $140 per drum, which TufStuf would resell to its customers at its normal selling price after appropriate relabeling Megan Flores, TufStuff's production manager, has suggested that the company could make better use of the welding machine by manufacturing bike frames, which would require only 0.2 hours of welding machine time per frame and yet sell for far more than the drums. Megan believes that TufStuff could sell up to 3,500 bike frames per year price of $71 each. The accounting department has provided the following data conceming the proposed new product: to bike manufacturers at a Bike Frames (318 per hour 10 64.05 Margin per ae The bike frames could be produced with existing equipment and personnel. Manufacturing overhead is allocated to products on the basis of direct labor-hours. Most of the manufacturing overhead consists of fixed common costs such as rent on the factory building, but some of it is variable. The variable manufacturing overhead has been estimated at $1.11 per WVD drum and $1.20 per bike frame. The variable manufacturing overhead cost would not be incurred on drums acquired from the outside supplier Selling and administrative expenses are a on the basis of revenues. Almost all of the selling and administrative expenses are fixed common costs, but it has been estimated that variable selling and administrative expenses amount to $0.91 per WVD drum whether made or purchased and would be $1.00 per bike frame llocated to products
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