Question 2

Mastery Problem: Differential Analysis and Product Pricing

WoolCorp

WoolCorp buys sheep's wool from farmers. The company began operations in January of this year, and is making decisions on product offerings, pricing, and vendors. The company is also examining its method of assigning overhead to products. You've just been hired as a production manager at WoolCorp.

Currently WoolCorp makes three products: (1) raw, clean wool to be used as stuffing or insulation; (2) wool yarn for use in the textile industry, and (3) extra-thick yarn for use in rugs.

Upper management would like your recommendations regarding a production decision regarding their current and proposed product lines.

Question Content Area

Continue/Discontinue

For the past year, WoolCorp has experimented with its third product, extra-thick rug yarn. The company wishes to consider whether to continue or discontinue manufacturing and selling this product. Decide to prepare differential analysis of the income related to all three products. To begin analysis, review the following condensed income statement. Then scroll down to complete the differential analysis.

Final Questions

Answer the following question (1), then fill in table (2).

1. After reviewing work on the Continue/Discontinue panel, should WoolCorp continue (Alternative 1) or discontinue (Alternative 2) the rug yarn product line?

Continue (Alternative 1).Discontinue (Alternative 2).The company is indifferent between Alternative 1 and Alternative 2.

2. The following table shows several business decisions that might need to be made across the top row. Along the left-hand column, there are important factors to consider.

Select the factor(s) that are important to the decision. Select all that apply. If the factor is not important to any of the decisions, select "yes" on the "Not Important" dropdown, otherwise select "no".

	Lease or Sell	Sell or Process Further	Special Price Order	Make or Buy	Continue or Discontinue	Production Bottleneck	Not Important
Impact on regular prices	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo
Contribution margin per bottleneck hour	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo
Differential revenue is more than differential cost	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo
Supplier price is less than WoolCorp's variable cost per unit	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo
Sunk costs	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo
Robinson-Patman Act	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo	YesNo

WoolCorp Condensed Income Statement For the Year Ended December 31, 20Y8
	Raw Wool			Wool Yarn			Rug Yarn			Total Company
Sales		$200,000			$155,000			$187,000		$542,000
Costs of goods sold:
Variable costs	$(48,000)	$(18,600)	$(37,180)	$(103,780)
Fixed costs	(32,000)	(12,400)	(24,780)	(69,180)
Total cost of goods sold	$(80,000)	$(31,000)	$(61,960)	$(172,960)
Gross profit	$120,000	$124,000	$125,040	$369,040
Operating expenses:
Variable expenses	$(5,000)	$(7,750)	$(53,130)	$(65,880)
Fixed expenses	(89,000)	(77,000)	(106,200)	(272,200)
Total operating expenses	$(94,000)	$(84,750)	$(159,330)	$(338,080)
Operating income (loss)	$26,000	$39,250	$(34,290)	$30,960