A learning curve applies to the manufacture of the first 256 units of a product.
During the manufacture of the first 255 units, the time taken to produce each successive unit is expected to:
A company has three divisions, each of which is an investment centre. The divisional managers' performance is assessed using return on investment (ROI). A higher ROI will result in a higher bonus for the divisional manager.
The company's cost of capital is 15%.
For the forthcoming year each divisional manager has one investment opportunity available as follows:
The manager(s) of which division(s) will proceed with their respective investment opportunity?
A firm of accountants uses an activity-based costing system. The firm's costing system permits staff to indicate specific tasks undertaken for clients, such as requesting missing information. The amount charged for a request for missing information is based on the following analysis.
Each request takes an average of 15 minutes of professional staff time. Professional staff are charged out at $100 per hour.
Administrators then process the information request and prepare a standard letter. The average time administration staff spend on each information request is 20 minutes. The cost of administration staff at the firm is $75,600 per year. Administration staff work for a total of 6,000 hours per year. The cost of printing and posting a letter is $1.
Calculate the cost of an information request.
Give your answer to 2 decimal places.
A large supermarket is applying direct product profitability analysis to establish the profit earned by each of the products it sells.
Data for product P are as follows.
The shelf is stacked each time that all units are sold and there are no units of product P left unsold at the end of each day.
What is the direct product profit per unit of product P?
Give your answer to the nearest $0.01.
Endure Co. makes 1,000 units ofX and 2,000 units of Y.
Costs for X: Material $4, labour $8, direct overhead $2, fixed cost $4.
Costs for Y: Material $9, labour $9, direct overhead $4, fixed cost $6.
Selling price for X and Y are S19 and $25 respectively. Another company can sell ready made product X and product Y's to Endure Co, this company sells X at $12 and Y at $21. Advise Endure Co. on what would be the
most cost effective way to source products X and Y.
