The standard production cost of making a product is as follows:
What is the fixed production overhead capacity variance?
A company is choosing between three projects, Project P, Project Q and Project R using minimax regret as the criterion for the decision. The outcome from each project is dependent on future economic growth. If this is strong, returns will be P $5,000, Q $6,500 and R $7,200. If it is weak, returns will be P $3,500, Q $4,800 and R $4,200.
Place the correct figures into the table to show the maximum regret for each project.
RT produces two products from different quantities of the same resources using a just-in-time (JIT) production system. The selling price and resource requirements of each of the products are shown below:
Market research shows that the maximum demand for products R and T during June 2010 is 500 units and 800 units respectively. This does not include an order that RT has agreed with a commercial customer for the supply of 250 units of R and 350 units of T at selling prices of $100 and $135 per unit respectively. Although the customer will accept part of the order, failure by RT to deliver the order in full by the end of June will cause RT to incur a $10,000 financial penalty. At a recent meeting of the purchasing and production managers to discuss the production plans of RT for June, the following resource restrictions for June were identified:
Direct labour hours 7,500 hours
Material A 8,500 kgs
Material B 3,000 litres
Machine hours 7,500 hours
Assuming that RT completes the order with the commercial customer, prepare calculations to show, from a financial perspective, the optimum production plan for June 2010 and the contribution that would result from adopting this plan.
The optimum production plan will be:
PL currently earns an annual contribution of $2,880,000 from the sale of 90,000 units of product B. Fixed costs are $800,000 per annum.
The management of PL is considering reducing the selling price per unit to $48. The estimated levels of demand at the revised selling price and the probabilities of them occurring are as follows:
Calculate the probability that the profit will increase from its current level if the selling price is reduced to $48.
A company is considering two mutually exclusive projects.
The returns on each project, at both high and low demand, have been multipled by the estimated probabilities to calculate the expected values shown in the table below:
Market research would be able to determine with certainty what the level of demand will be.
What is the maximum amount that the company should pay for this certainty?
Forecast sales demand of product W next period is 6,800 units. Product W requires 5 kg of material Y, seven hours of skilled labour and six hours of semi-skilled labour.
Availability of resources for next period is forecast as follows:
No inventories are held.
What is the principal budget factor for next period?
The following extract from a decision tree has been prepared for a decision that is to be made to choose between options P, Q and R.
What is the maximum expected value of profit at decision point Z?
B. $4 million
C. $6 million
D. $36 million
$2.4 million
A company produces a product that requires two materials, Material A and Material B. Details of the material quantities and costs for August are given in the table below.
Budgeted and actual output of the product for August was 12,000 units.
The material yield variance for August is:
