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Maxim manufactures a cat food product called Green Health. Maxim currently has 10,000 bags of Green Health on hand. The variable production costs per bag are $1.80 and total fixed costs are $10,000. The cat food can be sold as it is for $9.00 per bag or be processed further into Premium Green and Green Deluxe at an additional $2,000 cost. The additional processing will yield 10,000 bags of Premium Green and 3,000 bags of Green Deluxe, which can be sold for $8 and $6 per bag, respectively. If Green Health is processed further into Premium Green and Green Deluxe, the total gross profit would be:

A) $68,000.
B) $78,000.
C) $96,000.
D) $98,000.
E) $100,000.

F) B) and E)
G) A) and B)

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Wheeler Company can produce a product that incurs the following costs per unit: direct materials, $10; direct labor, $24, and overhead, $16. An outside supplier has offered to sell the product to Wheeler for $45. If Wheeler buys from the supplier, it will still incur 45% of its overhead cost. Compute the net incremental cost or savings of buying.

A) $4.00 savings per unit.
B) $4.00 cost per unit.
C) $2.20 cost per unit.
D) $3.80 cost per unit.
E) $2.20 savings per unit.

F) A) and C)
G) A) and E)

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________ revenues are the additional revenue generated by selecting a certain course of action over another..

Chang Industries has 2,000 tables that cost $115 each to produce. Each table can be sold as is for $221 or finished with a stain or paint. The cost to add a finish to each table is $75. Finished tables can be sold for $310. Chang should:

A(n) ________ requires a future outlay of cash and is relevant for current and future decision making.

The Mad Hatter Company owns a machine that manufactures two types of chimney caps. Production time is .20 hours for cap A and .40 hours for cap B. The machine's capacity is 2,000 hours per year. Both products are sold to a single customer who has agreed to buy all of the company's output up to a maximum of 1,000 units of cap A and 6,000 units of cap B. Selling prices and variable costs per unit are shown below. Based on this information, what is Mad Hatter's most profitable sales mix?

Elliot Company can sell all of its products A and Z that it can produce, but it has limited production capacity. It can produce 8 units of A per hour or 10 units of Z per hour, and it has 20,000 production hours available. Contribution margin per unit is $12 for A and $10 for Z. What is the most profitable sales mix for Elliot Company?

A sunk cost arises from a past decision and cannot be avoided or changed.

Sunk costs are irrelevant to future decisions.

JK Company can sell all of the plush and supreme products it can produce, but it has limited production capacity. It can produce 4 plush units per hour or 2 supreme units per hour, and it has 2,000 production hours available. Contribution margin per unit is $214 for the plush product and $300 for the supreme product. What is the most profitable sales mix for JK Company?

In a make or buy decision, management should focus on costs that are the same under the two alternatives.

Bandy Corporation owns a machine that manufactures lawn game sets. Production time for the croquet set is 10 units per hour and for the volleyball set is 8 units per hour. The machine's capacity is 1,500 hours per year. Both products are sold to a single customer who has agreed to buy all of the company's output up to a maximum of 4,000 croquet sets and 10,000 volleyball sets. Selling prices and variable costs per unit are shown below. Based on this information, what is Bandy Corporation's most profitable sales mix?

To determine a product selling price based on the total cost method, management should include:

Logan Company can sell all of the standard and premier products they can produce, but it has limited production capacity. It can produce 6 standard units per hour or 4 premier units per hour, and it has 36,000 production hours available. Contribution margin per unit is $24 for the standard product and $30 for the premier product. What is the total contribution margin if Logan chooses the most profitable sales mix?

Assume markup percentage equals desired profit divided by total costs. What is the correct calculation to determine the dollar amount of the markup per unit?

A company has already incurred a $55,000 cost in partially producing its three products. Their selling prices when partially and fully processed are shown in the following table with the additional costs necessary to finish their processing. Based on this information, should any products be processed further?

The process of buying goods or services from an external supplier is called ________.

Incremental costs are also called out-of-pocket costs.

Product A requires 5 machine hours per unit to be produced, Product B requires only 3 machine hours per unit, and the company's productive capacity is limited to 240,000 machine hours. Product A sells for $16 per unit and has variable costs of $6 per unit. Product B sells for $12 per unit and has variable costs of $5 per unit. Assuming the company can sell as many units of either product it produces, the company should:

A company has the choice of either selling 600 apples or processing them into applesauce. The company could sell the apples as is for $2.00 per unit. Alternatively, each apple could be made into one unit of applesauce with incremental costs of $0.60 per unit for direct materials, $1.00 per unit for direct labor, and $0.80 per unit for overhead, and then sold for $5.00 each. What is the amount of incremental revenue from processing the apples into applesauce?