Assignment: Introduction to Managerial Accounting
Question 1:
Best Brew Manufacturing Company has two Service Departments-Custodial Services and Maintenance- and three Production Departments-Brewing, Bottling, and Packaging. Best Brew allocates the cost of Custodial Services on the basis of square metres and Maintenance on the basis of labour hours.
Budgeted operating data for the year just completed follow:
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Service Departments
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Operating Departments
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Custodial
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Maintenance
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Brewing
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Bottling
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Packaging
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Budgeted costs before allocation
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$18,000
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$8,000
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$80,000
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$50,000
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$90,000
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Square metres
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1,000
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10,000
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5,000
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22,000
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13,000
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Labour-hours
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-
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-
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4,000
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8,000
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8,000
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Required:
1) Prepare a schedule, which allocates Service Department costs to the Production Departments by the direct method.
2) Prepare a schedule, which allocates Service Department costs to the Production Departments by the step-down method, allocating Custodial Services first.
Question 2:
Tabulation Corporation manufactures and sells two types of electronic calculators: EL-520 W and EL-620
T. The following data was gathered from last month's activities:
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EL-520 W
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EL-620 T
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Sales in units
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5,000
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3,000
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Selling price per unit
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$50
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$100
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Variable production costs per unit
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$10
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$26
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Traceable fixed production costs
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$100,000
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$150,000
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Variable selling expenses per unit
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$5
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$6
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Traceable fixed selling expenses
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$5,000
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$7,500
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Allocated division administrative expenses
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$50,000
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$60,000
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Required:
1) Prepare a segmented income statement in the contribution format for last month, showing both "Amount" and "Percent" columns for the company as a whole and for each model.
2) Why might it be very difficult to calculate separate break-even sales for each model?
3) Refer to the original data and, if necessary, the results of the segmented income statement prepared in part (1) above. Calculate the total break-even sales (in both units AND dollars) for last month, assuming that none of the fixed production costs and fixed selling expenses is traceable. Allocate the total break-even sales between the two models.
4) Again, refer to the original data and, if necessary, the results of the segmented income statement prepared in part (1) above. Calculate the total break-even sales (in both units AND dollars) for last month, assuming that the "allocated" amounts of the company's administrative expenses are actually traceable. Allocate the total break-even sales between the two models.
5) How reasonable are the total break-even sales numbers calculated in parts (3) and (4) given the actual results for last month?
Question 3:
The following data is provided on behalf of Mittens Incorporated for last year appear below:
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Mittens Incorporated
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Statements of Financial Position
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For the Year Ended June 2020
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Beginning Balance
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Ending Balance
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Assets:
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Cash
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$135,000
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$266,000
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Accounts receivable
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225,000
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475,000
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Inventory
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314,000
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394,000
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Plant and equipment (net)
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940,000
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860,000
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Investment in Scarf Company
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104,000
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101,000
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Land (undeveloped)
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198,000
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65,000
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Total assets
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$1,916,000
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$2,161,000
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Liabilities and owners' equity:
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Accounts payable
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$88,000
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$119,000
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Long-term debt
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585,000
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665,000
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Owners' equity
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1,243,000
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1,377,000
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Total liabilities and owners' equity
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$1,916,000
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$2,161,000
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Mittens Incorporated
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Income Statement
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As at June 2020
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Sales
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$4,644,000
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Less operating expenses
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4,291,000
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Net operating income
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353,000
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Less interest and taxes:
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Interest expense
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$90,000
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Tax expense
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129,000
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219,000
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Operating Income
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$134,000
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The "Investment in Scarf Company" on the statement of financial position represents an investment in the stock of another company.
Required:
1) Compute the company's margin, turnover, and return on investment for last year.
2) The Board of Directors of Mittens Company have set a minimum required return of 15%. What was the company's residual income last year?
Question 4:
Heisenberg Corporation has a Moldings Division that does molding work of various types. The company's Machine Products Division has asked the Moldings Division to provide it with 20,000 special moldings each year on a continuing basis. The special moldings would require $10 per unit in variable production costs. The Machine Products Division has a bid from an outside supplier of $29 per unit for the moldings.
In order to have time and space to produce the new moldings, the Moldings Division would have to cut back production of another molding: the Blue4, which it presently is producing. The Blue4 sells for $30 per unit, and requires $12 per unit in variable production costs. Boxing and shipping costs of the Blue4 are $4 per unit. Boxing and shipping costs for the new special molding would be only $1 per unit. The company is now producing and selling 100,000 units of the Blue4 each year. Production and sales of this molding would drop by 20% if the new molding is produced.
Required:
1) What is the range of transfer prices within which both the divisions' profits would increase as a result of agreeing to the transfer of 20,000 moldings per year from the Moldings Division to the Machine Products Division?
2) Is it in the best interests of Heisenberg Corporation for this transfer to take place? Explain.
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